[Avocado-devel] Multiplex & Variants

[Lukáš Doktor]

Dne 24.5.2018 v 14:33 Petr Šplíchal napsal(a):
> On 15 May 2018 at 09:21, Lukáš Doktor <ldoktor at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Dne 14.5.2018 v 17:05 Petr Šplíchal napsal(a):
>>> Thanks for the pointers, Lukáš.
>>>
>>> I tried the command you suggested with 52 with the same result:
>>>> avocado multiplex -m mux.yaml --tree
>>> avocado multiplex: error: unrecognized arguments: -m mux.yaml
>>>
>>> BTW, 52.1 docs suggest using "variants", but that does not work either:
>>>> avocado variants --tree -m mux.yaml
>>> avocado variants: error: unrecognized arguments: -m mux.yaml
>>>
>>>> avocado --version
>>> Avocado 52.0
>>>
>>>> rpm -q python2-avocado
>>> python2-avocado-52.0-1.el7.noarch
>>>
>>
>> Hello Petr,
>>
>> the "unrecognized arguments" is the best hint here and it means
>> you most probably don't have the "yaml_to_mux" installed. You
>> can list installed plugins by "avocado plugins" or, in your
>> case, by running "rpm -qa | grep avocado". As suggested in
>> http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/52.1/GetStartedGuide.html
>> you need to install
>> "python-avocado-plugins-varianter-yaml-to-mux" plugin which
>> implements the `-m` option.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification, Lukáš. I was somehow did not expect
> the plugin is not installed. But I see it's mentioned several
> times in the documentation. So that should be all right.
> 
>> Note with more recent Avocado you get to chose from either
>> "yaml_to_mux" or "pict" but in LTS you only have the
>> "yaml_to_mux" varianter plugin available.
>>
>> Do you think we can improve a bit? We moved the optional_plugins
>> documentation to special section to emphasize they are not core,
>> maybe the "optional_plugins" section header can be a bit better.
>> Or do you think something like "-m option is not supported, do
>> you have all plugins installed (use 'avocado plugins' to list
>> them)" would help?
> 
> Yes, I think the more detailed error message mentioning the
> plugins and how to list them would definitely help here to
> discover the problem.
> 

FYI: https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/pull/2644

Regards,
Lukáš


> Thanks.
> 
> psss...
> 


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