Marius,

On 14/09/16 15:45, Marius Bakke wrote:
> It's not visible in the cgit interface, but it actually seems to 
> support normal snapshot downloads: 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/cpu/mce/mcelog.git/snapshot/v141.tar.gz

I did not know that. Thanks for the tip! It still requires a snippet,
unfortunately.

> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <m...@tobias.gr> writes:
>> +                #:tests? #f))           ; tests must be run as 
>> root
> Does all tests have to run as root?

Yes. Each test wants to load modules & inject synthetic MCE events. The
daemon will even fail to start on an unsupported CPU like my current AMD
laptop.

> Also, could you reverse the order of the arguments to match other 
> package definitions?

Hm: *some* other. I rather keep them in approximate order of use.

Unrelated: I see the ‘arguments‘ indentation went funky. Will fix.

>> +    (home-page "http://mcelog.org/";)
> Nit-pick: the trailing slash is unnecessary :)

Oh, I know, I just have a thing for proper root paths in URIs.

I'm seeing someone about that.

>> +    (synopsis "Machine check monitor for x86 Linux systems")
> If this is x86-only, perhaps we should set (supported-systems)?

Indeed. Thanks!

Kind regards,

T G-R

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