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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] testimage: regenerate rootfs before testing
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On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 14:25 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Thursday 23 April 2015 16:02:45 Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On 23 April 2015 at 12:20, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
> > wrote:
> > > I can't remember for certain, but I suspect the lack of this dependency
> > > was intentional, so that you could e.g. copy in an image built elsewhere
> > > and run tests on it. Maybe we can take the decision we don't need that,
> > > but it should be a conscious decision.
> > 
> > My guess was that the missing dependency was from when rootfs always
> > regenerated an image, so if you were iterating the test suite it would
> > always rebuild the image.  This isn't the case now.
> 
> I don't believe so since that change was made prior to testimage's existence 
> (although it was only a month or so before).
> 
> > Someone should speak with QA and see if they actually use the ability to
> > copy in images.  Cristian, I'm looking at you. :)
> 
> I'm assuming our QA team aren't the only people that use testimage ;)

This was discussed long ago and there are two different tasks as a
compromise. testimage_auto runs automatically after a rootfs is built
and has the correct dependencies. "testimage" is triggered manually. The
autobuilder actually uses testimage so it can be explicit about which
images get tested.

Cheers,

Richard