On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 08:11:36 -0400 Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Currently, some tests contains target architecture information, in the > form of a "x86_64" tag. But that tag is not respected in the default > execution, that is, "make check-acceptance" doesn't do anything with > it. > > That said, even the target architecture handling currently present in > the "avocado_qemu.Test" class is pretty limited. For instance, by > default, it chooses a target based on the host architecture. > > Because the original implementation of the tags feature in Avocado did > not include any time of namespace or "key:val" mechanism, no tag has > relation to another tag. The new implementation of the tags feature > from version 67.0 onwards, allows "key:val" tags, and because of that, > a test can be classified with a tag in a given key. For instance, the > new proposed version of the "boot_linux_console.py" test, which > downloads and attempts to run a x86_64 kernel, is now tagged as: > > :avocado: tags=arch:x86_64 > > This means that it can be filtered (out) when no x86_64 target is > available. At the same time, tests that don't have a "arch:" tag, > will not be filtered out. > > Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> > --- > tests/Makefile.include | 3 +++ > tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py | 2 +- > tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py | 2 +- > tests/acceptance/virtio_version.py | 2 +- > 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <coh...@redhat.com>
