[pacman-dev] Fileconflict error...

[Xavier]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was thinking of adding some kind of "self.knownoutcome" flag to
> pactest, and have that basically suppress the return code incrementing
> if it was set to "fail" or something. (or just
> self.knownfailure=true.) Does that make sense to anyone? The problem
> is right now we have no way of distinguishing from fails like
> fileconflict 001 & 002 (which we know will fail from now until they
> are fixed) from fails that pop up after a patch has been applied. The
> second ones are the regressions and the ones we really care about; the
> first are not quite as important in a normal run of pactest.
>

I agree, a way to distinguish them would be very helpful.