[Rpm-ecosystem] Anyone interested in working on the dnf ansible module?

[Radek Holy]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jan Silhan" <jsilhan at redhat.com>
> To: rpm-ecosystem at lists.rpm.org
> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2015 4:28:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rpm-ecosystem] Anyone interested in working on the dnf ansible module?
> 
> > From: "Pavel Odvody" <podvody at redhat.com>
> >
> > Makes me wonder, do we have YUM -> DNF regression test suite to throw at
> > cases like this? Something nice like:
> > 
> >   test("install a package").do("install
> >   apache").check(rpm_package_installed("apache"))
> > 
> > This could be executed on the client to quickly test against their
> > version of DNF. It might also report additional guidance as to what to
> > do when regressions are found.
> > To make the test suite 'safe to run' without spoiling the host system we
> > could use containers (nspawn) and/or different installroot.
> 
> So far we have only unit tests.
> 
> I was thinking about it. Some Behavior driven testing could be handy so the
> tests
> definition could be easily reused in any RHEL based package manager in the
> future.
> The same definition could be used for examples in packaging guide when
> dealing
> with Soft dependencies too. The question is: Isn't it the job of QAs?
> 
> Honza
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FYI, I already have some system tests of "dnf install" (and also some tests of "dnf --installroot" are in progress) which use Behave and which will appear in https://github.com/rholy/dnf-extra-tests as soon as I will have some time to polish them. I kind of hope that QEs will find them useful.
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Radek Holý
Associate Software Engineer
Software Management Team
Red Hat Czech