Re: [Puppet Users] Creating tests for the yum package provider

2010-09-06 Thread Matt Robinson
Hi Oliver, Dan Bode emailed me to let me know that he has already looked into this a bit and that he will be on site to work with you this next week. I'll look further into these tests if he doesn't have the time to see this through. Matt On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Matt Robinson wrote: > Hi

Re: [Puppet Users] Creating tests for the yum package provider

2010-09-03 Thread Matt Robinson
Hi Oliver, Sorry for taking so long to respond on this. We definitely appreciate the help writing some tests for that patch as it looks like something that would definitely help people once it gets merged in. Writing tests for puppet providers can be tricky, as you're finding. I'll take a look an

Re: [Puppet Users] Creating tests for the yum package provider

2010-08-16 Thread Trevor Vaughan
Oliver, You probably want to post this over in puppet-...@googlegroups.com. I've had the same issue. The code is relatively easy to write but the tests require a level of Puppet framework knowledge that is beyond most that don't work on it regularly. I've also had situations where my tests pass

[Puppet Users] Creating tests for the yum package provider

2010-08-16 Thread Oliver
Sorry, but this is a blatant call for help. I'm desperately out of my depth with creating tests due to my lack of experience with just about every component involved. The background is, I'm trying to create the necessary tests to have #2866 accepted. I'm running into problems just getting a basic