Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2023/12/12 2:01, Alex Bennée wrote: >> Cleber Rosa <crosa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Based on many runs, the average run time for these 4 tests is around >>> 250 seconds, with 320 seconds being the ceiling. In any way, the >>> default 120 seconds timeout is inappropriate in my experience. >> I would rather see these tests updated to fix: >> - Don't use such an old Fedora 31 image >> - Avoid updating image packages (when will RH stop serving them?) >> - The "test" is a fairly basic check of dmesg/sysfs output >> I think building a buildroot image with the tools pre-installed >> (with >> perhaps more testing) would be a better use of our limited test time. > > That's what tests/avocado/netdev-ethtool.py does, but I don't like it > much because building a buildroot image takes long and results in a > somewhat big binary blob. > > I rather prefer to have some script that runs mkosi[1] to make an > image; it downloads packages from distributor so it will take much > less than using buildroot. The CI system can run the script and cache > the image. I'm all more smaller more directed test cases and I'm less worried about exactly how things are built. I only use buildroot personally because I'm familiar with it and it makes it easy to build testcases for multiple architectures. > [1] https://github.com/systemd/mkosi If that works for you go for it ;-) -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
