Re: passt & mbuto

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

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On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:30:08 +0200
Stefano Brivio <sbrivio(a)redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:57:20 +1000
> David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 03:33:13AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:  
> > > On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 13:50:44 +1000
> > > David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > >     
> > > > Hi again,
> > > > 
> > > > I realized I wasn't quite right when I said that qrap problems where
> > > > what was currently stopping me running the passt (not pasta) tests.  I
> > > > did hit qrap issues somewhere, but the current stumbling block is that
> > > > mbuto looks for udhcpc to put into the guest image, which I can't
> > > > easily put onto my host system.
> > > > 
> > > > Now, in the short term, once my patch to remove usage of udhcpc from
> > > > the passt/pasta tests is applied, we could just remove udhcpc from the
> > > > mbuto profile as well.  However, that raises a wider scope issue:
> > > > 
> > > > The passt testing profile for mbuto appliances is in the mbuto tree,
> > > > not the passt tree.  That doesn't realy make sense, since it means any
> > > > change to what we need for the passt tests requires a synchronized
> > > > change with mbuto.  Particularly for a pretty young and project like
> > > > passt, that's not really tenable.  Plus, slurping an external tool
> > > > from some random URL in the tests is just kinda ugly.    
> > > 
> > > Hmm, yes, in my ideal world mbuto would be already widely distributed
> > > and we could drop the git clone. On the other hand, that's still one
> > > long-term goal of mine, so:
> > >     
> > > > I'm not immediately sure how best to to address this:
> > > > 
> > > >  * We could make mbuto take the profiles as some sort of external
> > > >    file, so they can be provided by the user, rather than built into
> > > >    the mbuto repository.    
> > > 
> > > ...I would prefer this option. Even though if you look at mbuto's git    
> > 
> > Yeah, I think it looks the best option to me as well, though not
> > necessarily the quickest to implement.  
> 
> Kind of done actually, I'll share it tomorrow (Wednesday).

...not quite :( and I'm off today, but it's almost there.

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Stefano