Open Stack

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com> wrote:
> On 2014-02-21 13:01, Mike Spreitzer wrote:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/devstack/+bug/1203680 is literally about Glance
> but Nova has the same problem.  There is a fix released, but just merging
> that fix accomplishes nothing --- we need people who run DevStack to set the
> new variable (INSTALL_TESTONLY_PACKAGES).  This is something that needs to
> be documented (in http://devstack.org/configuration.html and all the places
> that tell people how to do unit testing, for examples), so that people know
> to do it, right?
>
>
>
> IMHO, that should be enabled by default.  Every developer using devstack is
> going to want to run unit tests at some point (or should anyway...), and if
> the gate doesn't want the extra install time for something like tempest that
> probably doesn't need these packages, then it's much simpler to disable it
> in that one config instead of every separate config used by every developer.
>
> -Ben
>

I would be wary of relying on devstack to configure your unittest
environments. Just like it takes over the node you run it on, devstack
takes full ownership of the repos it clones and will do potentially
lossy things like `git reset --hard` when you don't expect it to. +1
to documenting the requirements for unittesting, not sure I would
include devstack in that documentation.

Clark