Package Manager Specification Test Suite

1.  Project Description

Historically, there were many cases whenever the behavior of a particular Package Manager didn't follow the PMS spec. In worst case, this resulted in a growing number of ebuilds which relied on the incorrect behavior and caused trouble for users of other Package Managers.

The PMS test suite project aims to provide a comprehensive solution to avoid such a mistakes in the future. It is supposed to provide a set of tests against various aspects of the PMS, and a means to run these tests using any Package Manager.

The PMS test suite project has been started as a 2011 GSoC project. It can be found in the gentoo package tree as app-portage/pms-test-suite.

2.  Developers

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

3.  Resources

Resources offered by the PMS Test Suite project are:

• project source code repository (git)
• HTML output of current test results