branches for platform one canot test on

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 12:53 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 11:01 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > 
> >>Is there a policy about doiong branches for packages one cannot test?
> >>For example I don't have a FC-3 to test a package I just added to cvs 
> >>(pam_ssh if you want to know) but I can't see why it shouldn't work, once
> >>it builds. Should I request the branch?
> > 
> > 
> > This may be a dumb question/response, but isn't mock made to handle this
> > scenario?  My understanding is that it builds a chroot environment
> > (/var/lib/mock/[branch-arch]) and builds your package there, so even if
> > you don't run Rawhide, for example, you can test a build on it.  This
> > might make a good addition to the Wiki for us new Extras packagers.
> 
> That's good for testing that builds work, but doesn't help with testing 
> that the resulting packages actually work.

I guess there's always Xen or VMWare for that.

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