Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] Introduce first exeter based test infrastructure

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

On Thu,  4 Sep 2025 12:50:00 +1000
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> Here's a new approach to building passt tests with exeter.  This new
> one no longer uses Avocado in the default case, although it would
> still be possible to manually run the exeter based tests with Avocado.
> 
> For now this only does simple tests, to show how the integration could
> work.  It adds some new trivial "smoke tests" and converts the linter
> and build checks to exeter.  More complex tests will require building
> the tunbridge library we've discussed.  A lot of the work for that
> already exists in my earlier exeter test series, but it will need some
> rework to split it into a separate component.
> 
> v7:
>  * Use "exetool list" rather than "--list" directly to get test manifest.
>  * Update Makefiles to automatically update exeter sources as necessary.
>  * Update series cover letter removing some outdated information.

I was about to apply this, but then realised that the usual build test
links at https://passt.top/#ci disappeared, see also
https://passt.top/builds/latest/web/ci.js. I didn't really investigate
yet, we're missing something equivalent to the "test" directive. If I
recall correctly, that was working in v5, but I'm not sure why. I still
need to look into this, unless you figure it out meanwhile.

Something minor I noticed is that indentation of some lines in
run_selected() is broken now (spaces instead of tabs).

-- 
Stefano