Improve the documentation that will be installed in the mysql-test RPM. diff -Naur mysql-5.5.20.orig/mysql-test/README mysql-5.5.20/mysql-test/README --- mysql-5.5.20.orig/mysql-test/README 2011-12-16 14:52:05.000000000 -0500 +++ mysql-5.5.20/mysql-test/README 2012-02-10 17:06:19.531082253 -0500 @@ -1,14 +1,26 @@ This directory contains a test suite for the MySQL daemon. To run -the currently existing test cases, simply execute ./mysql-test-run in -this directory. It will fire up the newly built mysqld and test it. +the currently existing test cases, execute ./mysql-test-run in +this directory. -Note that you do not have to have to do "make install", and you could -actually have a co-existing MySQL installation. The tests will not -conflict with it. - -All tests must pass. If one or more of them fail on your system, please -read the following manual section for instructions on how to report the -problem: +For use in Red Hat distributions, you should run the script as user mysql, +so the best bet is something like + cd /usr/share/mysql-test + sudo -u mysql ./mysql-test-run --skip-test-list=platform-specific-tests.list +This will use the installed mysql executables, but will run a private copy +of the server process (using data files within /usr/share/mysql-test), +so you need not start the mysqld service beforehand. + +The "--skip-test-list=platform-specific-tests.list" option excludes tests that are +known to fail on one or more Red-Hat-supported platforms. You can omit it +if you want to check whether such failures occur for you. Documentation +about the reasons for omitting such tests can be found in the file +platform-specific-tests.list. + +To clean up afterwards, remove the created "var" subdirectory, eg + sudo -u mysql rm -rf /usr/share/mysql-test/var + +If one or more tests fail on your system, please read the following manual +section for instructions on how to report the problem: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysql-test-suite.html @@ -25,7 +37,8 @@ With no test cases named on the command line, mysql-test-run falls back to the normal "non-extern" behavior. The reason for this is that some -tests cannot run with an external server. +tests cannot run with an external server (because they need to control the +options with which the server is started). You can create your own test cases. To create a test case, create a new