Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] configure: Enable out-of-tree acceptance tests

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 06/06/2018 04:24 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 11:45:03AM -0300, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> [... something about config files ...]
>>> And after that, the following would run all "console" tests:
>>>
>>>   avocado run -t console
>>>
>>> How does this sound?
>>
>> For my use cases this doesn't worry me, I'll let Eduardo/Fam opine about
>> use_test_dir_when_no_references_given.
> 
> Well, I can't give an opinion because I couldn't understand
> what's the final goal here.

You cut too much, the relevant part is:

  On 05/30/2018 10:06 PM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
  > But at the same, there are security implications: `list` won't
  > load/execute any test code (different from, say, standard Python
  > unittests), while "run" obviously will.  So "avocado run" may end up
  > running what users don't want if a malicious user controls
  > "$avocado_datadir_paths_test_dir".

> 
> What exactly is missing in the current solution?  Why
> "avocado run -t console ." wouldn't work?

It doesn't work in out-of-tree builds, I have to use the full path:

  >>   build_dir$ avocado run
/full/path/to/sources/qemu/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py

Don't worry about this RFC patch, I don't have problem to use the full
path for now, I suppose the Avocado team will resolve this differently
via a configurable option.

Regards,

Phil.