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> Hopefully I can encourage you to try once more in the light of these
> comments ... we need to make sure Marko's experience is not the norm
> for a PCP QA newbie.
Some updates to qa/README might help here? The first sentence says:
"PCP needs to be installed on the local host, with pmcd operational."
We probably should clarify that as "This is the PCP installation under
test - pcp/qa does not make use of binaries from a git or build tree,
they *must* first be properly installed. Aspects of packaging, use of
certain local accounts, interaction with system daemons, init systems,
and so on - are all exercised by the tests, so this is not optional."
Also, mentioning the use of VMs as extremely helpful for testing might
be warranted (and perhaps pointing to ./Makepkgs again), based on some
other IRC comments.
cheers.
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Nathan
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