[Fai-commit] r5479 - in trunk: debian doc

[Thomas Lange]

Author: lange
Date: 2009-07-23 10:58:41 +0000 (Thu, 23 Jul 2009)
New Revision: 5479

Modified:
   trunk/debian/changelog
   trunk/doc/fai-guide.sgml
Log:
  /files/packages, add section about tests

Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog	2009-07-23 10:43:27 UTC (rev 5478)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog	2009-07-23 10:58:41 UTC (rev 5479)
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   * fcopy.8: improve info for calling postinst
   * fai-guide.sgml: add hint how to define classes on the kernel command
     line (closes: #497548), remove outdated information about
-    /files/packages
+    /files/packages, add section about tests
   * ainsl: create missing path elements if -a is used (closes: #447199)
   * make-fai-nfsroot: mount sysfs inside nfsroot (closes: #532985)
     dereference symli nks when copying file into nfsroot
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
     debugging this).  (closes: #532321)
   * Bumped setup-storage version number to 1.1.
   
- -- Thomas Lange <lange at debian.org>  Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:21:35 +0200
+ -- Thomas Lange <lange at debian.org>  Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:58:43 +0200
 
 fai (3.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
 

Modified: trunk/doc/fai-guide.sgml
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc/fai-guide.sgml	2009-07-23 10:43:27 UTC (rev 5478)
+++ trunk/doc/fai-guide.sgml	2009-07-23 10:58:41 UTC (rev 5479)
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
   <!-- SVN revision of this document -->
   <!entity svn-rev "$Id$">
 
-<!entity faiver "3.2.14">
-<!entity faiverdate "28 Oct 2008">
+<!entity faiver "3.3">
+<!entity faiverdate "XXXXXXXXX Oct 2009">
 
 <!entity version "2.8.7">
 <!entity date    "19 july 2009">
@@ -1014,6 +1014,7 @@
 	    <item> <p>Create and mount local file systems</p> </item>
 	    <item> <p>Install software packages</p> </item>
 	    <item> <p>Call site specific configuration scripts</p> </item>
+	    <item> <p>Call tests if available</p> </item>
 	    <item> <p>Save log files</p> </item>
 	    <item> <p>Reboot the new installed system</p> </item>
 	  </enumlist>
@@ -1186,6 +1187,19 @@
 <p>
 More information about these scripts are described in <ref id="cscripts">.
 
+
+<sect id=itests>Automatic tests<p>
+
+After the customization scripts are executed, FAI will execute some
+tests if available. Using these test, you can check for errors of the
+installation or of the softupdate. Test scripts are called via
+<manref name="fai-do-scripts" section="1"> and should append it's
+messages to <tt>$LOGDIR/test.log</tt>. A Perl module including some
+useful subroutines can be found in <tt>Faitest.pm</tt>. A test can
+also define a new class for executing another tests during next boot
+via the variable <var>ADDCLASSES</var>.
+
+
 <sect id=isavelog>Save log files<p>
 
 When all installation tasks are finished, the log files are written to