[Avocado-devel] Avocado related questions

[Junchao Zhang]

HI Lukas,

Thanks for your explanation. My situation is I am trying to use Avocado on
my arm server.
When I ran 'python setup.py install', it had the following output:

[root at kindle avocado]# python setup.py install
/mnt/us/testutils/python/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning:
Unknown distribution option: 'entry_points'
/mnt/us/testutils/python/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning:
Unknown distribution option: 'zip_safe'
/mnt/us/testutils/python/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning:
Unknown distribution option: 'include_package_data'
/mnt/us/testutils/python/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning:
Unknown distribution option: 'python_requires'
/mnt/us/testutils/python/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning:
Unknown distribution option: 'install_requires'
/mnt/us/testutils/python/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning:
Unknown distribution option: 'test_suite'
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_scripts
running install_lib
running install_scripts
changing mode of /mnt/us/testutils/python/bin/avocado to 777
changing mode of /mnt/us/testutils/python/bin/avocado-rest-client to 777
running install_egg_info
Removing
/mnt/us/testutils/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/avocado_framework-68.0-py2.7.egg-info
Writing
/mnt/us/testutils/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/avocado_framework-68.0-py2.7.egg-info


And I still cannot see any subcommands when I directly executed the avocado
file:
[root at kindle us]# python avocado_s
******
subcommands:
  valid subcommands

  {}                    subcommand help


Do you have any idea?

Thanks,
Junchao


On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 2:53 AM Lukáš Doktor <ldoktor at redhat.com> wrote:

> Dne 22. 02. 19 v 18:09 Junchao Zhang napsal(a):
> > Dear avocado development team,
> >
> > My name is Kimi. Currently I am working on Linux development. Our team
> used Autotest before. Currently I am trying to use Avocado. It is really a
> great framework. I have some questions that hope you can help me with.
> >
> > 1. Since I do not want to do installation on our arm system, I tried to
> manually run avocado.
> > I copied the avocado script ~/.local/bin/avocado and added necessary
> packages on the device. Then I can successfully running "python
> SCRIPT_NAME". But looks like there is no subcommands options available.
> > subcommands:
> >   valid subcommands
> >
> >   {}                    subcommand help
> >
> > Did I miss something so that I can do "python SCRIPT_NAME run"?
> >
> > 2. When I tried avocado on my Ubuntu, it works fine. The only issue is
> there isn't any tests available when I run "Avocado list". I just followed
> the instructions on online doc.
> >
> > Hope to hear back from you soon!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Junchao
>
> Dear Kimi,
>
> Avocado uses stevedore as a plugin system which uses setuptools entry
> points
> https://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Plugins.html#registering-plugins
> to discover available plugins.
>
> To setup Avocado for development you can simply clone the git repo to any
> location and use `python setup.py develop --user` (user means use
> "~/.local" and not "/usr") or simply by our `make develop` or `make link`
> makefile target (see `make help` for details), which creates "links" in
> "~/.local/lib". The difference in "install" vs. "develop" is that it won't
> copy the scripts, it simply tells python that this library is located in
> this directory, therefor any change in your cloned directory is propagated
> (apart from new/renamed entry-points which requires to re-execute "make
> develop").
>
> Note the "develop" puts "avocado" binary to "~/.local/bin/avocado". Using
> it usually requires extending the PATH, or executing "python3
> scripts/avocado" from the cloned git location.
>
> Last but not least, details on installing from git are here:
> https://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/latest/GetStartedGuide.html#generic-installation-from-a-git-repository
>
> Happy hacking,
> Lukáš
>
> PS: Not sure what you require in your testing, there are two debts we have
> compare to Autotest and that is multi-host testing
> https://trello.com/c/AnoH6vhP/530-rfc-multiple-machine-support-for-tests
> and tests surviving host reboot
> https://trello.com/c/mzhpqQyx/1233-add-avocado-service-to-allow-reboot-between-test-communication-and-even-safer-funcatexit
>
>
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