Re: CVS commit: src/crypto/external/bsd/netpgp/dist

[Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 6/28/11 7:25 AM, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 08:12:26AM +0200, Alistair Crooks wrote:
>> 3.  they are candidates for modifying to work under atf, I have yet to
>> get the time to do that
>>
>> 4. luke kindly made some gnu autotests for them a while ago
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> and if someone was to offer to convert these tests to atf style, that
>> would be great, thanks.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> But I think this entails a wider discussion about how the tests shipped
> with third-party software could be integrated to atf(7). In case of netpgp(1)
> this is easy; a relatively small code base for which both in-house tests and
> /src/tests can be easily distributed. But then there are entirely different
> beasts like gcc(1).

One of the ideas floating around in my head is to make atf-run (well,
kyua) support "foreign" tests.  The most basic form of this would be
programs that just return 0 on success or 1 on failure, but maybe it'd
be extended to also support autotest programs, etc.

Sure, their functionality would be limited within the framework (as
compared to "native atf tests", but this would allow us to "mux" all the
tests in one single run without much effort.

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Julio Merino / @jmmv