On 02/26/2016 02:29 PM, Stef Walter wrote: > On 26.02.2016 13:28, Daniel Mack wrote:
>> Hmm, but the machines I'm running this one are more or less stateless, >> and the scripts literally download gigabytes of images, which also takes >> a long time. > > Typically the runners that run these things cache the images, and only > new ones get downloaded. There's a $TEST_DATA environment variable that > htelps with this. On a test runner typically pointed to a volume that's > mounted persistently. I have to ask whether such persistent storage is available. > Obviously if there's non-sensical complexity, we want to get that out of > the way. I'll do a bit of cleanup to help. But as to "why": > > Cockpit is an interface for complex and messy operating systems. It > interacts directly with tons different projects and they all break, > regress, remove API and on and on. > > So the integration tests have to actually integrate and boot real > operating systems. It ends up being very close to how users would use > Cockpit. In most cases they use the exact same build scripts (like spec > files) to build cockpit as ends up being built on that operating system > ... and so on. > > Without the integration testing that we do, the Cockpit project would be > dead ... or have a year long stabilization process before a release (ie: > as good as dead). But because the tests boot real operating systems, > that users are actually running, every week we can release something > that works, and catch regressions before they pile up, etc. > > Obviously, I said above, you don't have to use the same operating system > images we do. If you want to generate your own test machine image, > that's possible. Would you expect CentOS 7 to deviate that much that we couldn't rely on the rest of the system (everything except systemd) to remain stable? The machine my script provisions is a clean CentOS 7 install which can be rebooted and accessed from a control host or other test machine instances. Would it be feasible to install a new version of system and a stable release of Cockpit on one those, and then run the test suite (which would purely act as remote control for Cockpit) on another? Both machines would have the same version of Cockpit checked out, of course. That would be something I could set up. > phantomjs is what we use as the remote-control. And you could generate a > test machine that works with the given tests. I know that Jan Scotka > does. And it goes without saying, that if there's issues that get in the > way of rolling your own test machine, then we'd be happy to work with > you to change things. That's good to know, thanks for that. But still, the entire qcow images dance sounds like a layer that might not be necessary in the CentOS CI, and if possible, I'd like to skip it entirely for this particular use case. Thanks, Daniel _______________________________________________ cockpit-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
