[Avocado-devel] What is a right way to install avocado?

[Lukáš Doktor]

Hello Andrei,

this is unfortunate, let's CC Cleber who has access to this server (but 
he is currently traveling from Brno therefor the reply might take a while)

Lukáš

Dne 2.2.2017 v 17:03 Andrei Stepanov napsal(a):
> When I
> add https://repos-avocadoproject.rhcloud.com/static/avocado-el.repo to
> RHEL6 I get:
>
> https://repos-avocadoproject.rhcloud.com/static/epel-6Workstation-noarch/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not
> Found"
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Andrei Stepanov <astepano at redhat.com
> <mailto:astepano at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello.
>
>     We are currently experiencing some issues with avocado / avocado-vt.
>
>     Our automation can be described in next steps:
>
>     0. Install RHEL 6/7.
>     1. Clone "master" branches for avocado/avocado-vt from github.
>     2. In avocado dir:
>
>     make requirements
>     python setup.py install
>
>     3. In avocado-vt dir:
>     make link
>     pip install sphinx
>     pip install -r requirements.txt
>     python setup.py install
>
>     4. Run tests.
>
>     Above commands are run from root account.
>     We cannot use this approach any more.
>     It doesn't work with RHEL7.3.
>
>     I have opened a bug:
>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417613
>     <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417613>
>     Than I had discussion with Tomas Orsava.
>
>     The problem is, running pip as root in Fedora/EPEL is not supported
>     and will break your system.
>
>     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe
>     <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe>
>
>     My question is: what is official way to install avocado/avocado-vt?
>
>     Invoking pip commands from root account is a bad approach.
>
>     Is there a safe way to install avocado & avocado-vt?
>
>

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