Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add mformat and xorriso dependencies in containers

[Ani Sinha]

> On 04-May-2023, at 12:05 PM, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 03/05/2023 16.55, Ani Sinha wrote:
>> mformat and xorriso tools are needed by biosbits avocado tests. This patchset
>> adds those two tools in the docker container images.
> 
> tests/qtest/cdrom-test.c already uses genisoimage to create ISO images, and 
> the containers already have that tool installed. Could you maybe switch the 
> biosbits test to use that tool? Or the other way round? ... at least having 
> two tools to create ISO images in our containers sounds IMHO excessive.

The dependency comes from the use of grub-mkrescue in the avocado test in order 
to generate the iso with the bios bits enabled grub and boot off with it. 
Grub-mkrescue is a bash script that uses mformat and xorriso.