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#170 prepare: package: does not get installed
Opened by martinpitt. Modified

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I'm following the TMT documentation and am now trying to install the necessary test dependencies:

❱❱❱ cat plans/unit-tests.fmf
summary: Run unit tests
prepare:
  how: install
  package:
    - python3-pylint
    - python3-gobject-base
    - make
execute:
    script: make ci

The test run fails as there is nothing installed, it seems to entirely ignore the package: list?

Locally it seems fine:

❱❱❱ tmt run --all provision --how local
/var/tmp/tmt/run-005
/plans/unit-tests
    discover
        how: shell
        directory: /var/home/martin/upstream/python-simpleline
        summary: 1 test selected
    provision
        how: local
        distro: Fedora 33 (Container Image)
        summary: 1 guest provisioned
    prepare
        how: install
        package: python3-pylint, python3-gobject-base and make
        summary: 1 preparation applied
    execute
        how: tmt
        summary: 1 test executed
    report
        how: display
        summary: 1 test passed
    finish
        summary: 0 tasks completed
total: 1 test passed

```

This was triggered on https://github.com/martinpitt/python-simpleline/pull/1 , but I'll force-push to that a lot still as that's my current learning playground.

Oops, sorry. prepare: itself is a dictionary, not a list. The documentation mentions that, I just copied it from another PR which got that wrong.

I fixed the syntax now:

❱❱❱ cat plans/unit-tests.fmf 
summary: Run unit tests
prepare:
  how: install
  package:
    - python3-pylint
    - python3-gobject-base
    - make
execute:
    script: make ci

Now the test run does not complain/crash any more, but it seems to entirely ignore the package: bit, and does not install anything.

Sorry @martinpitt , we are migrating Packit to "new" Testing Farm backend, you are seeing there issues because it does not use tmt tool as a runner and the support is fairly outdated.

As workaround, you could add installation to do "manually":100: 

summary: Run unit tests
execute:
    how: shell
    script:
      - dnf -y install  python3-pylint python3-gobject-base make
      - make ci

I believe this will work

Thanks @mvadkert ! Indeed I had a similar idea and moved to prepare: how: shell. The test didn't start yet, but if that doesn't work I'll move it into execute:.

Either way, this isn't a blocker for me, I just wanted to report it. Thanks!

Update: That works!

prepare:
  how: shell
  script: dnf install -y python3-pylint python3-gobject-base make
Edited by martinpitt

@martinpitt I will close this once this is finally done, we are getting close

Metadata Update from @mvadkert:
- Issue assigned to mvadkert

Metadata Update from @mvadkert:
- Issue tagged with: Testing Farm
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