On 07/21/2011 05:35 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Kohei Kaigai <Kohei.Kaigai@emea.nec.com> wrote:
>> How about an idea that allows to launch environment checker (typically shell scripts) prior
>> to regression tests?
>>
>> The following stuffs should be preconfigured to run sepgsql's regression test.
>> - SELinux must be run and configured to enforcing mode.
>> - The sepgsql-regtest policy module must be loaded.
>> - The boolean of sepgsql_regression_test_mode must be turned on.
>> - The psql command should be labeled as 'bin_t'
>>
>> If checkinstall optionally allows to launch an environment checker on regression test,
>> we may be possible to suggest users to fix up their configuration. It seems to me quite
>> helpful.
>>
>> For example, one idea is to inject a dummy variable (mostly, initialized to empty) as
>> dependency of installcheck, being available to overwrite in Makefile of contrib, as follows:
>>
>> # against installed postmaster
>> installcheck: submake $(REGRESS_PRE)
>> $(pg_regress_installcheck) $(REGRESS_OPTS) $(REGRESS)
>
> Seems reasonable.
+1
it would have been helpful to me last month while looking at this.
Joe
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