[Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH 02/20] interop: Do not test against broken qemu-storage-daemon

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 02:59:28PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 07:47:38AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 09:53:43AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> >>+requires_not test "$qsd_version" = "6.0.0"
> >>+requires_not test "$qsd_version" = "5.1.0"
> >
> >Yeah, a bit ugly (especially once downstreams start shipping a variant
> >of 6.0 with the patch backported), but does the job.
> >
> >Could we instead make it a feature check, by attempting to fire up
> >qemu-storage-daemon with socket activation and checking for the known
> >failure mode?
> 
> I guess so, but Rich would be the one to know whether that is testable
> in some easy way or not, because the only thing I know is that these two
> versions are, allegedly, broken.

I couldn't really come up with anything that would be simpler than
what Martin has proposed above.

q-s-d is not very composable :-(

Rich.

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