Porting atf - violating the layout of the ports-filesystems

[John B Brown]

On 7/12/10 2:31 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
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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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	I believe the objection is to putting binary executables into a tree to 
be shared across machines with diverse operating systems. The atf test 
tree contains binary code. Putting it under /opt/local/share/atf-tests 
is grave error, if not outright anti social.

	Shalom,

	John B. Brown.
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