[SAMBA4][PATCH] Enable 'make wintest_dc'
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Wed Feb 21 10:27:27 GMT 2007
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 21:20 -0600, Brad Henry wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 16:36 -0600, Brad Henry wrote:
> >> Hello, I would like to propose the following patch.
> >>
> >> It creates a new test to run with make, called 'wintest_dc'. I am
> >> planning to use it as the basis for automated Windows 2003 DC testing in
> >> the build farm. It takes advantage of the changes and test scripts which
> >> I've committed today.
> >
> > Why does it need to be a different test? Can't we do the normal windows
> > testing, then promote the machine to a DC as a single test?
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
> >
>
> The only reason I can think of is that in the case where we fail a lot
> of DC tests, it will take time to restore the snapshot and promote the
> base image to a DC for each failed test. Working from a base DC image
> saves us from having to promote each time.
Can we run two images, but just from one test target, if that is more
efficient?
> It's just as easy for me to add the DC tests to the existing windows
> tests though. Would you rather I do that?
My gut feeling is that we want one 'external windows test' target. We
already have to many 'test-like' targets in main.mk.
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com
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