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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 22:49:51 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] docs(test): describe native package checks

---
 xCAT-test/bats/README.md   |  2 +-
 xCAT-test/native/README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xCAT-test/bats/README.md b/xCAT-test/bats/README.md
index c89958e17..28cbd4b33 100644
--- a/xCAT-test/bats/README.md
+++ b/xCAT-test/bats/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Missing prerequisites fail these tests without stopping unrelated test files.
 Non-Linux hosts report a skip. Set `TMPDIR` to a writable, executable filesystem
 if the default temporary directory is mounted with `noexec`.
 
-`go_xcat_os_release.bats` and the full-script cases in
+`go_xcat_os_release.bats`, `go_xcat_activation.bats` and the full-script cases in
 `postscripts_apt_get.bats` use the same namespace isolation. They require
 bats-core 1.4 or newer. OS detection also requires GNU awk for the legacy
 Red Hat release parser. Postscript cases require GNU diffutils.
diff --git a/xCAT-test/native/README.md b/xCAT-test/native/README.md
index e349e1d5f..ab1dba878 100644
--- a/xCAT-test/native/README.md
+++ b/xCAT-test/native/README.md
@@ -44,6 +44,23 @@ packages, execute target-architecture binaries or prove that the generated image
 
 ## Other native tests
 
+The pull-request workflow runs these packaging cases explicitly as an ordinary
+user:
+
+```
+prove xCAT-test/native/probe_package_payload.t \
+      xCAT-test/native/release_repository.t \
+      xCAT-test/native/package_relations.t
+```
+
+They need RPM build/query tools, cpio, createrepo_c, zstd, rsync, GnuPG, Python 3
+with RPM bindings, user/mount namespaces, and the Perl modules Capture::Tiny,
+File::Slurper, Parallel::ForkManager and XML::LibXML. The probe command also
+needs `which`. The release test uses an ephemeral signing key and removes its
+agent. These checks inspect real packages and repository output; they do not
+qualify package installation on every target architecture. On EL8, install both
+`python36` and `python3-rpm` to provide the interpreter and its RPM bindings.
+
 Run the package and unprivileged namespace cases as an ordinary user:
 
 ```