[bitbake-devel] [PATCH v2] svn.py: Stop SVN from directly pulling from an external layer w/o fetcher

[richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]

On Fri, 2019-05-17 at 10:44 +0300, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 5/17/19 9:16 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > I did specifically test on debian 9 where we saw the problem last
> > time
> > and that issue is resolved and passes now.
> > 
> > The question now is whether we want to install subversion on all
> > our
> > workers, whether we download and install some kind of standalone
> > test
> > tarball for this test or whether we disable the test by default...
> 
> Is there a concept of a skipped test within bitbake-selftest?  It
> would be easy
> enough for me to check if 'svn' and 'svnadmin' were available in the
> environment
> and simply skip them.
> 
> Then it's up to you guys to figure out if this is a test you want to
> run on all
> of the builders by installing svn or a standalone test tarball as you
> suggested.

Its standard python unitttest which supports skipping so yes, I'd agree
this is the best way forward.

Cheers,

Richard