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diff --git a/mysql-test/README b/mysql-test/README index 426e66c893b..ae1d6d56433 100644 --- a/mysql-test/README +++ b/mysql-test/README @@ -2,10 +2,8 @@ This directory contains test suites for the MariaDB server. To run currently existing test cases, execute ./mysql-test-run in this directory. Some tests are known to fail on some platforms or be otherwise unreliable. -The file "unstable-tests" contains the list of such tests along with -a comment for every test. -To exclude them from the test run, execute - # ./mysql-test-run --skip-test-list=unstable-tests +In the file collections/smoke_test there is a list of tests that are +expected to be stable. In general you do not have to have to do "make install", and you can have a co-existing MariaDB installation, the tests will not conflict with it. @@ -15,7 +13,7 @@ In Red Hat distributions, you should run the script as user "mysql". The user is created with nologin shell, so the best bet is something like # su - # cd /usr/share/mysql-test - # su -s /bin/bash mysql -c "./mysql-test-run --skip-test-list=unstable-tests" + # su -s /bin/bash mysql -c ./mysql-test-run This will use the installed MariaDB executables, but will run a private copy of the server process (using data files within /usr/share/mysql-test), @@ -27,8 +25,7 @@ the listed failures occur for you. To clean up afterwards, remove the created "var" subdirectory, e.g. # su -s /bin/bash - mysql -c "rm -rf /usr/share/mysql-test/var" -If one or more tests fail on your system on reasons other than listed -in lists of unstable tests, please read the following manual section +If tests fail on your system, please read the following manual section for instructions on how to report the problem: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/reporting-bugs |