[OE-core] [PATCH 1/6] oeqa: Add selftest parallelisation support

[Robert Yang]

On 07/26/2018 05:10 PM, richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 14:00 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
>>
>> On 07/26/2018 11:03 AM, Robert Yang wrote:
>>> Hi RP,
>>>
>>> On 07/17/2018 12:33 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>> This allows oe-selftest to take a -j option which specifies how
>>>> much test
>>>> parallelisation to use. Currently this is "module" based with
>>>> each module
>>>> being split and run in a separate build directory. Further
>>>> splitting could
>>>> be done but this seems a good compromise between test setup and
>>>> parallelism.
>>>>
>>>> You need python-testtools and python-subunit installed to use
>>>> this but only
>>>> when the -j option is specified.
>>>
>>> Should we add python-testtools-native and python-subunit-native,
>>> please ?
>>>
>>> And add them to TESTIMAGEDEPENDS ?
>>
>> After talked with Qi, this won't work since we use host's python3. So
>> we need install them on host, or use buildtools-tarball.
> 
> Correct, this is why the modules are only loaded if you use the -j
> option, so the dependency is only needed if you use bitbake -j. That at
>   least minimises the cross-section of users affected.

There might be a bug since we don't use -j in our build farm, but I see the no
testtools module error, I will do more investigations on it.

> 
> You can't use buildtools-tarball as yet as we don't have the -native or
> -nativesdk recipes you mention to add to it.

They are in meta-openstack layer, I can move them into oe-core if oe-core
can accept them, and I think that we need move them to make buildtools-tarball
completed.

// Robert

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
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