[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Fix bug 9395 by allowing pacman to remove unresolvable packages from a transaction

[Xavier]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Bryan Ischo
> <bji-keyword-pacman.3644cb at www.ischo.com> wrote:
>> This works for me, but it took me a while to figure out how pactest.py was
>> working (and if it had some convenient way to run the local pacman instead
>> of the system pacman).  Did I miss something, or is there an easier way?
>
> make check?
>

make check is indeed the best to do a full check.
Once you saw the failing pactests, and you want to check specific
ones, I have the following helper in my pacman tree :

> cat runpactest.sh
#!/bin/sh

python ./pactest/pactest.py --test $@ -p \
./src/pacman/pacman --debug=1