Testing changes on Berlin before pushing changes? (Was: Re: bug#35521: Mariadb test suite failures on x86_64-linux)

[Chris Marusich]

Hi Marius,

Thank you for your work on Mariadb in bug 35521.  You are a hero!  Well,
my hero at least, since this was blocking me from upgrading things.  :-)

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:

> I was about to push this patch to core-updates:
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/databases.scm b/gnu/packages/databases.scm
> index 6bfeaad9a2..5d256b1af2 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/databases.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/databases.scm
> @@ -706,9 +706,6 @@ Language.")
>                        ;; 2030-12-31.  See <https://bugs.gnu.org/34351> for 
> details.
>                        "main.mysqldump"
>  
> -                      ;; XXX: Fails sporadically.
> -                      "innodb_fts.crash_recovery"
> -
>                        ;; FIXME: This test fails on i686:
>                        ;; -myisampack: Can't create/write to file (Errcode: 
> 17 "File exists")
>                        ;; +myisampack: Can't create/write to file (Errcode: 
> 17 "File exists)
> @@ -753,7 +750,10 @@ Language.")
>                   (with-directory-excursion "mysql-test"
>                     (invoke "./mtr" "--verbose"
>                             "--retry=3"
> -                           "--testcase-timeout=40"
> +                           ;; On x86_64 we need a long timeout because of the
> +                           ;; TokuDB engine, whose individual test cases 
> often
> +                           ;; require more than 1 hour to complete on busy 
> hosts.
> +                           "--testcase-timeout=90"
>                             "--suite-timeout=600"
>                             "--parallel" (number->string (parallel-job-count))
>                             "--skip-test-list=unstable-tests"))
>
>
> Lo and behold, tokudb_bugs.mdev4533 failed when I tried it on Berlin.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you said, but it sounds like you were
able to test a change on Berlin without committing it to the
core-updates branch in Savannah.  Is that right?  If so, how did you do
it?  Being able to quickly test changes on better hardware than my puny
X200 could prove useful, and I'm sure others would find it useful, too.

-- 
Chris

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