[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0024][Tests] Fix integration tests not to produce incorrect /etc/hosts file

[Petr Spacek]

On 29.6.2016 18:39, Oleg Fayans wrote:
> In fact, I believe /etc/hosts file should not be touched at all.
> Hostname resolution is usually governed by the DNS system of the lab in
> which tests are running. We do not modify it when perform tests
> manually, so I'd rather remove this method at all.

+1, it should not be need. Let me know if it is needed for some reason and I
will have a look.

Petr^2 Spacek

> On 06/29/2016 06:27 PM, Lenka Doudova wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> a function 'fix_etc_hosts' in ipatests/test_integration/tasks.py
>> produces incorrect /etc/hosts file (solitary IPv6 address), and
>> currently parser is not able to resolve the issue, causing
>> ipa-server-install to fail with 'list index out of range' error.
>>
>> Hence I'm attaching patch to fix this issue before parser is fixed
>> (related ticket to it #6014). The fix is just change of regexs
>> responsible for creating incorrect file so that all the lines containing
>> defined hostname are removed, not just specific IP/hostname/shortname
>> strings.
>>
>>
>> Lenka