Re: Don't use sudo in python tests

On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 02:44:27PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:

On 10/22/22 08:04, Tom Rini wrote:

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On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 10:24:33AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:

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Hello Simon,

As described in doc/develop/py_testing.doc using sudo in python tests should be avoided.

• users building U-Boot may not be sudoers
• running code as sudo comes with a risk

You added sudo in test/py/tests/test_ut.py

Can we use virt-make-fs here?

Note that virt-make-fs is only suitable for trivial cases as it's otherwise too slow. This is possibly one of the cases where it's too slow.

An easy way to do this is to use fuse2fs/fusefat.

I guess at this point some patches to migrate a test or two over, so we can see how they perform, would be much appreciated.