[Avocado-devel] Avocado 0.31.0 multi user problems

Fri Jan 8 16:38:25 UTC 2016

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Olav Philipp Henschel" <olavph at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> To: avocado-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Friday, January 8, 2016 2:09:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Avocado-devel] Avocado 0.31.0 multi user problems
> 
> Thanks Cleber,
> 
> I've been able to locate and delete all the files you mentioned.
> 
> Then I proceeded to "make rpm", but it exits with an error:
> Error: No Package found for aexpect
> Even though it is already install by pip.
> 
> I proceeded anyway with "python setup.py develop --user". I don't need
> to use a path that all users can access yet.
> I did the same for avocado-vt.
> 

The solution to this is documented on the Makefile (repos just updated):

#
# NOTE: to build Avocado RPM packages extra deps not present out of the box
# are necessary. These packages are currently hosted at:
#
# https://repos-avocadoproject.rhcloud.com/static/avocado-fedora.repo
# or
# https://repos-avocadoproject.rhcloud.com/static/avocado-el.repo
#
# Since the RPM build steps are based on mock, edit your chroot config
# file (/etc/mock/<your-config>.cnf) and add the COPR repo configuration there.
#

It's something hard to automate, but yes, it should probably also
be documented elsewhere.

> 
> Avocado is still getting .conf files from my other user, however
> (powerkvm). I've tried with the absolute paths with the same results.
> The paths that it shows for the subcommand "config" and "vt-bootstrap"
> differ:
> 
> $ sudo ~/.local/bin/avocado --config
> /home/olavph/ibm-kvm-tests/avocado/etc/avocado/conf.d/pkvm.conf config
> [sudo] password for olavph:
> Config files read (in order):
>      /home/powerkvm/ibm-kvm-tests/avocado/etc/avocado/avocado.conf
>      /home/powerkvm/ibm-kvm-tests/avocado/etc/avocado/conf.d/gdb.conf
> /home/powerkvm/ibm-kvm-tests/avocado/etc/avocado/conf.d/pkvm.conf
>      /home/olavph/ibm-kvm-tests/avocado/etc/avocado/conf.d/pkvm.conf
> 
>      Section.Key                             Value
>      datadir.paths.base_dir                  /home/olavph/avocado
>      datadir.paths.test_dir /home/olavph/avocado/tests
>      datadir.paths.data_dir /home/olavph/avocado/data
>      datadir.paths.logs_dir /home/olavph/avocado/job-results
>      ...
> 
> $ sudo ~/.local/bin/avocado --config
> /home/olavph/ibm-kvm-tests/avocado/etc/avocado/conf.d/pkvm.conf
> vt-bootstrap --vt-type libvirt --vt-guest-os PowerKVM --y
> es-to-all
> ...
> 10:44:58 INFO | 4 - Verifying directories
> 10:44:58 DEBUG| Dir /var/avocado/data/avocado-vt/images exists, not creating
> 10:44:58 DEBUG| Dir /var/avocado/data/avocado-vt/isos exists, not creating
> 10:44:58 DEBUG| Dir /var/avocado/data/avocado-vt/steps_data exists, not
> creating
> 10:44:58 DEBUG| Dir /var/avocado/data/avocado-vt/gpg exists, not creating
> ...
> 
> 
> Any other hints?

I'll try to reproduce your setup and hopefully come with hints and/or fixes.

> 
> Olav
> 
> 
> On 07-01-2016 19:15, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Olav Philipp Henschel" <olavph at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> To: avocado-devel at redhat.com
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 4:43:27 PM
> >> Subject: [Avocado-devel] Avocado 0.31.0 multi user problems
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've updated avocado to version 0.31.0 and got it to work using "python
> >> setup.py develop". Everything worked fine until I tried to run it from
> >> another user (with another local git clone).
> > That may be expected. Setuptools "develop" will create a link file (not a
> > POSIX symlink or hardlink) that points to the original location. The second
> > user may not have permission to access those.
> >
> >> I've ran "python setup.py develop" from that user too to try to
> >> overwrite whatever configurations were made. It keeps using the files
> >> from the first user avocado-vt plugin folder however, getting its tests
> >> provider and custom .cfgs.
> >> At some point I've ran "python setup.py install", so I'm not sure which
> >> command made this mess.
> >> I've also tried using "python setup.py install" and "python setup.py
> >> develop --user" from the second user.
> >>
> > Given the different commands ran as different users, it's pretty hard
> > to give any thoughts about your current installation state.
> >
> >> Is there any way I can make a clean install? Which folders does the
> >> setup.py write to?
> > It depends on how you ran it. What I'd recommend is:
> >
> >   1) Look for egg link files (avocado*.egg-link), and then look at their
> >      contents to check where they point to
> >   2) At the link targets, (the locations given in the .egg-link files)
> >      check if they have avocado*.egg-info directories
> >   3) Look for the "avocado" script in your system.
> >
> > Cleaning all of those, and then starting fresh, should give you pretty
> > good confidence about where you're running Avocado from.
> >
> > Now, for some advice on how to install Avocado:
> >
> >   1) Even if you're tracking Avocado from master (or your local branch)
> >      you could depend on RPM packages (if your system supports it). The
> >      `make rpm` command should give you pretty reliable versions. And,
> >      because of the packaging system itself, you don't have to go looking
> >      for scattered files if you want to remove it.
> >
> >   2) If you want to run directly from git, I'd recommend using:
> >
> >      $ python setup.py develop --prefix=/path/that/all/users/can/access
> >
> >      Setuptools itself will tell you that the given prefix must be on the
> >      Python search path for your users.
> >
> > I hope that helps.
> >
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Olav P. Henschel
> >>
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