Re: CVS commit: src/sys/net

[Justin Cormack <justin%specialbusservice.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Antti Kantee <pooka%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>> Antti, Justin, can we separate the rump userland from the rump kernel
>> binaries easily and put them in different sets, and then run the userland
>> from -6 or -7 against the (rump-)kernel from -current?
>
>
> Copying prebuilt userland tarballs around sounds suboptimal.  Unless you
> want to go cherry-picking every time something changes in the tests, you'd
> need all of bins/libs.  And then you'd probably need to carefully tune your
> PATH for the tests to still work.  Instead, I'd go the opposite route which
> allows for straightforward, self-contained automation:
>
> You can use buildrump.sh (*) with a -6 or -7 toolchain to get a -current
> rump kernel.  Theoretically speaking, you can then run the -current tests as
> an additional part of -6 and -7 test runs with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to
> buildrump.sh/rump/lib.  I doubt anyone has run /usr/tests with host != rump
> kernel since I was working on NetBSD 5.0 and testing -current, um, 4 years
> ago (and I was just installing -current to /), so expect some tuning to be
> necessary.

Well I have now, the buildrump snapshot (ie current a month or so ago)
on 6.1.5/amd64. There are about 110 more test fails than there are on
my install, will look into what type of thing is failing and why. A
lot (most) seem to be puffs/p2k related.

Justni