IcedTea release process

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Hello.

Matthias Klose wrote:
> Joseph D. Darcy schrieb:
>
>   
>> FYI, for comparison purposes I've been posting per-build OpenJDK 6 jtreg
>> results on my blog, along with differences from the previous build; for
>> example,
>>    http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/openjdk_6_some_regression_test2
>>     
>
> yes, I did see these results and was wondering how you got these. Some questions:
>
>  - are these run using the jtreg included in IcedTea? Do you get the
>    same results when running the jtreg tests in IcedTea?
>   

I ran those tests with a copy of jtreg version 4.0 I built from the source,
http://download.java.net/openjdk/jtreg/

>  - I couldn't find requirements for the test environment, but there
>    are some:
>    - network resources (reachability of non local hosts)
>   

The required network resources and how to set them without modifying the 
test source are discussed in the file:
jdk/test/TestEnv.java


>    - number of open file descriptors
>    Maybe more.
>   

I don't know offhand.  I don't think there is a problem with file 
descriptors and the regression tests; IIRC historically there were 
problems with the JCK tests on that front.

-Joe

> Asked about some test failures in
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2009-January/004524.html
>
> Matthias
>