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David Gibson
460064d262 test: Avoid hitting guestfish command length limits
In test/prepare-distro-img.sh we use guestfish to tweak our distro guest
images to be suitable.  Part of this is using a 'copy-in' directive to copy
in the source files for passt itself.  Currently we copy in all the files
with a single 'copy-in', since it allows listing multiple files.  However
it turns out that the number of arguments it can accept is fairly limited
and our current list of files is already very close to that limit.

Instead, expand our list of files to one copy-in per file, avoiding that
limitation.  This isn't much slower, because all the commands still run in
a single invocation of guestfish itself.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2023-12-04 09:51:26 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
c5f4ba1b1b Makefile: Ugly hack to get a "plain" Markdown version of README
Distribution packages reasonably expect to have a human-readable
Markdown version of the README under /usr/share/doc/, but all we have
right now is a heavily web-oriented version.

Introduce a ugly hack to strip web-oriented parts from the current
README and install it.

It should probably work the other way around: a human-readable README
could be used as a source for the web page. But cgit needs a file
that's in the tree, not something that can be built, and
https://passt.top/ is based on cgit. It should eventually be doable
to work around this in cgit, instead.

Reported-by: Benson Muite <benson_muite@emailplus.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-08-20 19:07:12 +02:00
David Gibson
d2802ec874 tests: Prepare distro images during asset build phase
Before booting the guest images, the distro test cases need to modify the
guest images, using virt-edit and guestfish, to boot in the way we need.
At present this gets repeated on every test run, even though it's not
really doing anything we want to test for.

In addition many of the images have the same preparation steps leading to
a lot of duplicated stages in the tests.  A number of additional images can
be prepared using common steps, even if the ones used now have small
differences.

Therefore move the preparation of most of the guest images to the asset
build phase, where they can be done a single time for multiple test runs,
using a common preparation script.  We can even avoid making a copy of the
disk image for booting, by using qemu's -snapshot option.

A few of the distros (openSUSE and older Ubuntu) do need different steps.
For now we don't chage how they are run, they could possibly be handled
more like this in future.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2022-07-14 01:36:02 +02:00