On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 12:50:00 +1000
David Gibson
Here's a new approach to building passt tests with exeter. This new one no longer uses Avocado in the default case, although it would still be possible to manually run the exeter based tests with Avocado.
For now this only does simple tests, to show how the integration could work. It adds some new trivial "smoke tests" and converts the linter and build checks to exeter. More complex tests will require building the tunbridge library we've discussed. A lot of the work for that already exists in my earlier exeter test series, but it will need some rework to split it into a separate component.
v7: * Use "exetool list" rather than "--list" directly to get test manifest. * Update Makefiles to automatically update exeter sources as necessary. * Update series cover letter removing some outdated information.
I was about to apply this, but then realised that the usual build test links at https://passt.top/#ci disappeared, see also https://passt.top/builds/latest/web/ci.js. I didn't really investigate yet, we're missing something equivalent to the "test" directive. If I recall correctly, that was working in v5, but I'm not sure why. I still need to look into this, unless you figure it out meanwhile. Something minor I noticed is that indentation of some lines in run_selected() is broken now (spaces instead of tabs). -- Stefano