Re: iotests and python dependencies

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

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On Thu, May 5, 2022, 8:33 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 08:08:42AM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> > On Thu, May 5, 2022, 4:09 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 03:38:45PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> > > > Howdy!
> > > >
> > > > So, I want to finally delete python/qemu/qmp from qemu.git, and this
> > > > creates a small problem -- namely, iotests needs access to it in
> order
> > > > to run the python-based tests.
> > > >
> > > > What I think needs to happen is that we create a virtual environment
> > > > that installs python/qemu/. The reason this cannot be done with
> > > > PYTHONPATH alone anymore is because the qmp package itself won't be
> > > > there anymore, we need an installer like `pip` to actually fetch it
> > > > for us and put it somewhere. (i.e., we need to process the
> > > > dependencies of python/qemu now and can't treat it as a pre-installed
> > > > location.)
> > >
> > > Having pip fetch it on the fly creates a problem for RPM builds,
> > > because the koji build env has no network access. We will, however,
> > > have an RPM of python-qemu-qmp installed on the host system though.
> > > IOW we need to be able to run iotests using system python and its
> > > installed libs, not a virtual env.  So if we do anything with a
> > > virtual env, it will need to be optional I believe.
> > >
> >
> > Hm, do we need iotests during an rpm build? Is it because of "make
> check"?
>
> Yes, and this is good, because it prevents us from outputting an
> RPM build that has a broken QEMU in it.


Guess this means I need to make a Fedora package too, though. My hubris.

OK, plenty of work to do.

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