Re: RFC: KFAILs [Was: [RFA/mi-testsuite] XFAIL mi*-console.exp]

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:53:30AM -0600, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> Fernando Nasser writes:
> 
> fna> KFAIL: could not run to marker1 (PRMS gdb/999)
> fna> Would that make the scripts happy?
> 
> Err, I'm not sure if you mean the dejagnu scripts, or my scripts.
> My scripts are happy with this format.
> 
> A lot of tests use "(...)" for various things, so the "PRMS"
> and "gdb/NNN" bits need to be mandatory in order to pick out this
> information from the noise.
> 
> fna> setup_kfail "gdb/999" *-*-*
> 
> Fine with me.  setup_kfail *-*-* "gdb/999" is fine with me as well.
> 
> fna> 4) Note that, when a test that was expected to fail due to a known
> fna> bug suddenly starts to pass, it becomes a KPASS (as XFAILs do).
> 
> Okay, I added a KPASS column to my tables.
> 
> fna> I will do it in Perl (I still don't know how to programmatically access
> fna> the Gnats database though).  But I have very little spare time, so I
> fna> will not mind if someone that can do it sooner volunteers to do this.
> 
> You can access the Gnats database through a URL:
> 
>   http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=gdb&cmd=view&pr=460
> 
> For programmatic access, there may already be a more suitable "cmd" than
> "cmd=view", or someone may need to update gnatsweb.pl.

Don't use gnatsweb for this sort of thing at all.  If you look in the
gnats package (Debian: gnats-user) you find all sorts of good tools for
this.  /usr/bin/edit-pr and /usr/bin/query-pr, in particular.

Don't get too hooked on these though.  I'd much rather see us move to
Bugzilla, since it should be available on sources.redhat.com in a
couple of weeks.


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