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! 14: <h2><font color="#e00000">Port's Testing Guide</font></h2>
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! 17: <h2><font color="#0000e0">Index</font></h2>
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! 19: <ul>
! 20: <li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
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! 22: <li><a href="#How">How</a></li>
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! 24: <li><a href="#First">First step</a></li>
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! 26: <li><a href="#Testing">Testing</a></li>
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! 28: <li><a href="#Commenting">Commenting</a></li>
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! 30: <li><a href="#More">More testing</a></li>
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! 34: <h2><a name="Introduction"><font color=
! 35: "#0000e0">Introduction</font></a></h2>
! 36:
! 37: <p>The <a href="ports.html">ports tree</a> is an huge piece of work that
! 38: permits to OpenBSD users to use extra stuff without loosing time in
! 39: patching, configuring, etc. This work is made by a few volunteers who
! 40: spend hours to make your favorite applications working fine on your
! 41: system. Many people think that they can't help our project because they
! 42: don't have enough knowledge, this is false because they can help porters
! 43: to work better and faster.</p>
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! 45: <h2><a name="How"><font color="#0000e0">How</font></a></h2>
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! 47: <p>Simply by testing submitted updates or new ports which are posted on
! 48: <a href="mailto:ports@openbsd.org">ports@openbsd.org</a>. By doing this
! 49: you reduce the latency of commit and also increase the number of ports to
! 50: be committed (many ports are not committed because of lack of testing
! 51: !).</p>
! 52:
! 53: <h2><a name="First"><font color="#0000e0">First step</font></a></h2>
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! 55: <p>Before starting you must know that port development is done by
! 56: following <a href="plus.html">OpenBSD-current</a>, you can find
! 57: instructions on following current <a href="anoncvs.html">source</a> and
! 58: <a href="faq/upgrade-minifaq.html">upgrade faq</a>. When it's done you
! 59: are ready to follow <a href=
! 60: "mailto:ports@openbsd.org">ports@openbsd.org</a> .</p>
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! 62: <h2><a name="Testing"><font color="#0000e0">Testing</font></a></h2>
! 63:
! 64: <p>Now that you are on the mailing-list you can find two type of submits
! 65: : new ports and updates. New ports are generally posted as an attachment
! 66: or an url to a tarball which contains the port tree. A good idea is to
! 67: extract it into the <tt>/usr/ports/mystuff</tt> directory and then you
! 68: can test it. Updates are generally a diff against current ports tree, so
! 69: it is suggested to copy the port in mytstuff/ and apply the diff to
! 70: prevent breaking your tree.</p>
! 71:
! 72: <p>You will need to perform step by step the building of the port to
! 73: verify that every <a href=
! 74: "http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ports&sektion=7&format=html">
! 75: target</a> is going right :</p>
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! 77: <ul>
! 78: <li>fetch : you just need to verify that distfile(s) are correctly
! 79: downloaded.</li>
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! 81: <li>extract : generally extract is done without problem, so you can
! 82: ignore this target in most cases.</li>
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! 84: <li>patch : check if patches apply correctly and track down forgotten
! 85: .orig .</li>
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! 87: <li>configure : for ports which use a configure script you can verify
! 88: they have correct path for dependencies, use(less) features, etc
! 89: ...</li>
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! 91: <li>build : the build itself should not give errors but could contain
! 92: minor warnings about tmpnam issue to be resolved by using mkstemp.</li>
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! 94: <li>fake : this target is faking installation of the package to prepare
! 95: for packaging. you should verify that files are installed in fake
! 96: directory.</li>
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! 98: <li>package : package creation can break if pkg/PLIST* and/or
! 99: pkg/PFRAG* are wrong.</li>
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! 101: <li>install : check that package install works fine.</li>
! 102:
! 103: <li>deinstall : don't forget to test deinstall.</li>
! 104: </ul>
! 105:
! 106: <p>You could also check some pkg/ stuff like DESCR, MESSAGE, INSTALL,
! 107: DEINSTALL</p>
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! 109: <h2><a name="Commenting"><font color="#0000e0">Commenting</font></a></h2>
! 110:
! 111: <p>At the end of the test comes the really important thing : comments.
! 112: Even if the port is working fine you must comment it, if we have ten
! 113: posts where people say that the port runs fine under different arch then
! 114: commit is done faster. If it does not work then you must give some
! 115: information, you have tools for that like <a href=
! 116: "http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/infrastructure/build/portslogger">
! 117: portslogger</a>.</p>
! 118:
! 119: <p>Example :<br>
! 120: </p>
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! 126: <pre>
! 127: # make install | /usr/ports/infrastructure/build/portslogger
! 128: </pre>
! 129: </td>
! 130: </tr>
! 131: </table>
! 132: </div>
! 133: <br>
! 134: <br>
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! 136:
! 137: <p>This will catch the output into a log file located in the current
! 138: directory.</p>
! 139:
! 140: <h2><a name="More"><font color="#0000e0">More testing</font></a></h2>
! 141:
! 142: <p>For those who are more skilled they can test targets like
! 143: lib-depends-check, look at patches and pkg stuff. You can also provide
! 144: diff to correct bugs or to add flavors, etc ...</p>
! 145: <hr>
! 146:
! 147: <address>
! 148: <p>$OpenBSD$<br>
! 149: Copyright © 2002, Damien Couderc, Jim Geovedi, Jose Nazario.</p>
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