[Avocado-devel] Avocado related questions

Tue Feb 26 17:47:37 UTC 2019

Hi Lukas,

I am using Kindle which is armv7l. There is no "pip" on this server. What I
did is I directly copy the setuptools package from my x86_64 Ubuntu and
removed all the .pyc files in the package. The setuptools work fine on my
x86_64 server. We want to keep the system clean so probably cannot install
"pip" on the server. Do you have any solution for this situation?

Thanks,
Junchao

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:51 PM Lukáš Doktor <ldoktor at redhat.com> wrote:

> Dne 26. 02. 19 v 2:46 Junchao Zhang napsal(a):
> > 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'
>
> Hello Kimi,
>
> this looks like old setuptools. What version are you using? Can you please
> provide the output of `pip list` to see the installed libraries? Also if
> `setuptools` is not listed, you should install it (or try updating it).
> Currently I'm using "setuptools==40.4.3".
>
> What could also help is knowing what distribution are you working on. I'm
> running avocado jobs on aarch64 on RHEL7 and RHEL8 and it works like a
> charm.
>
> Regards,
> Lukáš
>
> > 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
> <mailto: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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