- compose_tree - this tries to build boot.iso and pxeboot images.
This is basically a releng test that we execute. Previous maintainer was James, but I doubt we should ask him for future maintenance. Currently it is broken. Even if it worked, was there someone reporting the issues? It's easier to look into releng logs online: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/branched-20120227/logs/ Does the above link render compose_tree test useless?
It works, AFAIK - I used it to build F17 images last week. I've taken the ticket that you filed and will look into it. FWIW, I've had problems with compose_tree when everything in mock doesn't match the ISO I'm trying to build (down to the kernel version).
I didn't know that. It's great that you use it and that it works/worked. I executed the test, it crashed -> I assumed it didn't work since F17 branch time (and nobody complained). But it is not this case, good.
We discussed this issue further over IRC and Tim wants to maintain and further develop this "test" (rather "tool"). But we are not sure whether it should stay part of AutoQA and whether we want to execute it regularly. Since he's the most knowledgeable here, I'll leave it up to his consideration.
For the next autoqa release I'd like to focus mainly on easy deployment of tests, so that we (for our tests) and some other teams (like anaconda) can easily update tests without tedious process of "new autoqa release". After that I expect some of the tests to return.
I'm not disagreeing with the suggestion, just wondering about the timing of it. Do we really want to be doing that in the middle of F17 testing. Unless we want to work under the assumption that some people are going to stay mostly on AutoQA instead of testing F17.
Then again, if we don't start it at some point, it may not get done.
Yeah, well. I think most of us are spending majority of our time testing F17, and I can't help myself but to report a few blocker bugs as well. But I see it as a currently most painful issue. I'll be happy to discuss once AutoQA 0.8 is out.