Bug#474280: [Monotone-debian] Bug#474280: Testsuite checks are too strict

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Thiemo Seufer <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> The monotone testsuite assumes a certain mount of network connectivity
> is available at build-time. However, some build daemons restrict net
> access
[...]
> The monotone testsuite should detect missing net access and fail
> gracefully in that case without causing a FTBFS.

Sorry for the delay. Unfortunately, the test suite can't easily tell
whether a failure of the mtn server is due to restricted net access.
Running the network tests over a Unix-domain socket is on the todo
list, but isn't going to happen soon.

Can you suggest a shell command (ideally one that doesn't require
additions to the build-depends ;-) that will detect restricted net
access?  With that, I could suppress all of the problem tests when
necessary.

zw