Hello fellow Cockpit developers, Cockpit's test machinery currently supports an environment variable `$TEST_DATA` which on the developer side is commonly used to put downloaded VM images into a specific path. If you don't specify it (nor the cockpit.bots.images-data-dir git config variable), then images are put into the project checkout, which is impractical:
1) development often requires `git clean -fdx` and such, which would kill your downloaded images 2) developers often have multiple checkouts, which don't share downloaded images $TEST_DATA was also used by our CI, which also is problematic as it was being used by far more than downloaded images. As this cannot be salvaged cleanly, I sent https://github.com/cockpit-project/bots/pull/943 to eliminate it completely. Once this lands, you have to do some actions on your machine to adjust, to avoid having to re-download the images: If you don't use $TEST_DATA, nor set the git config: Create ~/.cache/cockpit-images/, and move your images from bots/images/*.qcow2 to there If you set `$TEST_DATA`: Create ~/.cache/cockpit-images/, and move your images from $TEST_DATA/images/*.qcow2 to there. Afterwards, clean up the other stuff, as that is not needed: `rm -r `$TEST_DATA`. Edit your ~/.bashrc (or wherever) to undefine it. If you set cockpit.bots.images-data-dir: No action necessary, this continues to override the ~/.cache/cockpit-images default. However, you may still want to move images to the standard directory and eliminate the git config setting for simplicity. After that, cockpit testing DTRT by default: Downloaded images go to ~/.cache/cockpit-images/ and are shared between checkouts, and truly temporary files (overlays, locks, etc.) go to tmp/ or ./tmp/, and the github cache goes to ~/.cache/github/. Please let me know if you have questions or concerns -- ideally, follow up on the pull request, but discussing it here is also fine, of course. Thanks! Martin _______________________________________________ cockpit-devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/[email protected]
