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Improve the documentation that will be installed in the mysql-test RPM. |
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diff -up mariadb-10.0.10/mysql-test/README.p3 mariadb-10.0.10/mysql-test/README |
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--- mariadb-10.0.10/mysql-test/README.p3 2014-04-07 16:05:51.402631548 +0200 |
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+++ mariadb-10.0.10/mysql-test/README 2014-04-07 16:06:06.137637991 +0200 |
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@@ -1,15 +1,28 @@ |
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-This directory contains a test suite for the MySQL daemon. To run |
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-the currently existing test cases, simply execute ./mysql-test-run in |
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-this directory. It will fire up the newly built mysqld and test it. |
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- |
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-Note that you do not have to have to do "make install", and you could |
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-actually have a co-existing MySQL installation. The tests will not |
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-conflict with it. To run the test suite in a source directory, you |
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-must do make first. |
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- |
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-All tests must pass. If one or more of them fail on your system, please |
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-read the following manual section for instructions on how to report the |
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-problem: |
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+This directory contains a test suite for the MariaDB daemon. To run |
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+the currently existing test cases, execute ./mysql-test-run in |
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+this directory. |
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+ |
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+For use in Red Hat distributions, you should run the script as user mysql, |
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+who is created with nologin shell however, so the best bet is something like |
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+ $ su - |
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+ # cd /usr/share/mysql-test |
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+ # su -s /bin/bash mysql -c "./mysql-test-run --skip-test-list=rh-skipped-tests.list" |
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+ |
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+This will use the installed mysql executables, but will run a private copy |
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+of the server process (using data files within /usr/share/mysql-test), |
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+so you need not start the mysqld service beforehand. |
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+ |
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+The "--skip-test-list=rh-skipped-tests.list" option excludes tests that are |
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+known to fail on one or more Red-Hat-supported platforms. You can omit it |
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+if you want to check whether such failures occur for you. Documentation |
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+about the reasons for omitting such tests can be found in the file |
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+rh-skipped-tests.list. |
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+ |
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+To clean up afterwards, remove the created "var" subdirectory, eg |
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+ # su -s /bin/bash - mysql -c "rm -rf /usr/share/mysql-test/var" |
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+ |
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+If one or more tests fail on your system, please read the following manual |
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+section for instructions on how to report the problem: |
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http://kb.askmonty.org/v/reporting-bugs |
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With no test cases named on the command line, mysql-test-run falls back |
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to the normal "non-extern" behavior. The reason for this is that some |
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-tests cannot run with an external server. |
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+tests cannot run with an external server (because they need to control the |
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+options with which the server is started). |
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You can create your own test cases. To create a test case, create a new |
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file in the t subdirectory using a text editor. The file should have a .test
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