[LTP] Re: Bug#154028: ITP: ltp -- Linux Test Project - stress testing the Linux kernel

[Alastair M. <mck...@co...>]

Yes.

ltp is now available in Debian/Sid (I was holding off announcing it
until I saw the autobuilder results on other arches).

It needs testing, unsuprisingly; I've been short of machines I can 
test on recently; thats going to change over the next month; 
all help wanted.

It is split into a number of packages:
	ltp        - the main test driver
	ltp-tools  - PAN tools needed for ltp
	ltp-dev    - files neeed to compile against ltp (static libs)
	ltp-{misc,kernel,network,disk}-test
		- the tests themselves, partitioned into useful 	sections.

The tests are installed into /usr/lib/debian-test/linux/*
The idea is that, while the LTP test driver can still execute them, they
may also be run from debian-test, a regression test system, and
hopefully vice versa - other Debian packages install their tests in
there, and more tests become available to LTP. 
Also, as the non-Linux Debian projects progress, (hurd & FreeBSD), and
Debian-with-different-kernel variants happen, some of the tests
.eg the POSIX tests  that are non-linux specific, can be useful to them.

I've just read about posixtest.sf.net; maybe its time to join that list
& see whats happening.

Comments (and reports) welcome. The package is alpha/beta quality but
all reports gladly received.

Regards,
Alastair McKinstry



On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 16:30, Jor-el wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> 
> > Package: wnpp
> > Version: N/A; reported 2002-07-23
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > * Package name    : ltp
> >   Version         : 20020709
> >   Upstream Author : Various <lt...@so...>
> > * URL             : http://ltp.sourceforge.net>
> > * License         : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
> >   Description     : Linux Test Project - stress testing the Linux kernel
> > 
> > This is the Linux Testing Project, which is a framework for
> > stress-testing the Linux Kernel.
> > 
> Alastair,
> 
> 	Have you made any progress with this? Do you have any alpha / beta
> level packages which I can use perhaps? I am very interested in using this
> package.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jor-el
>