[OE-core] [PATCH] testimage: regenerate rootfs before testing

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 23 April 2015 16:02:45 Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 23 April 2015 at 12:20, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at 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 ;)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre