Re: [PATCH 2/2] base-passwd: set root's default password to 'root'

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:36:58 Robert Yang wrote:
> On 11/29/2016 11:45 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:45:51 Robert Yang wrote:
> >> We may also need something like IMAGE_FEATURES += "test" to make it can
> >> work with -ctestimage.
> > 
> > Not sure I follow your reasoning here - can you explain what this feature
> > would do?
> 
> For example, the "bitbake <image> -ctestimage" requires a few pkgs
> installed, such as psplash-default, see the testcase in
> meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/smart.py:
> 
>      def test_smart_install(self):
>          self.smart('remove -y psplash-default')
>          self.smart('install -y psplash-default')
> 
> The test would fail without psplash-default installed, and also it requires
> sshd installed on the target. When IMAGE_FETURES += "test", we can install
> these required packages, I'm not sure this is a good idea, or maybe we can
> enhance testimge.bbclass to do it. Another way to fix the problem might be
> not hardcode the package name.

We have other means of dealing with that specifically - i.e. have the test 
skip itself if a package required for the test is not in the image. I think we 
already have examples of that.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre