Porting atf - violating the layout of the ports-filesystems

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 7/12/10 12:42 , Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote:
> I contacted ATF's author to inform him that I had include ATF into
> MacPorts. He raised concerns about moving the tests into
> ${prefix}/share/${name}/tests.
> 
> His main objection was that the tests tree was supposed to be shared
> across all packages and more than one package can install ATF-based
> tests. The user can just go into prefix/tests/ (imagine you'd have
> prefix/tests/atf/, prefix/tests/bind/, prefix/tests/gtk2/, etc.) and
> run all tests at once for all packages. After he explained it to me, I
> am more inclined to move the tests back to $prefix/tests and set
> destroot.violate_mtree to yes.

I think the correct answer to this is /opt/local/share/atf-tests, then.

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