Daniel Hilst
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An xCAT installed from these debs could report no version at all: `lsxcatd -v`
printed a bare "Version" and there was no /opt/xcat/share/xcat/version to
consult.
xCAT::Version ships with #XCATVERSIONSUBHERE / #XCATSVNBUILDSUBHERE
placeholders that perl-xCAT/debian/rules fills by calling modifyUtils with the
version and the commit. It takes the commit from ../Gitinfo, falling back to
`git log`. Neither Debian builder wrote Gitinfo -- buildrpms.pl does, which is
why only the deb side was affected -- so a tree without a readable .git left
that argument empty. modifyUtils then hit `if [ -z "$2" ]` and returned 0
WITHOUT substituting, and neither caller checks the status, so the placeholders
shipped.
Two independent things had to be wrong for this to be silent, and both are
fixed:
modifyUtils now exits non-zero on a missing argument, so a build that cannot
stamp a version fails instead of producing one that cannot identify itself. Its
message was also wrong -- it checked $2 and complained about the version, which
is $1 -- so each argument now names itself.
builddebs.pl writes Gitinfo, as buildrpms.pl already does. BuildUtils::
git_revision prefers the checkout, falls back to an existing Gitinfo (a source
export carries the real revision that way, and overwriting it with a
placeholder would discard the only provenance the tree has), and only then
returns "unknown" -- never the empty string modifyUtils ignores.
"unknown" is now warned about rather than stamped quietly. The cause is usually
not a missing .git but git refusing one it considers dubiously owned: the tree
belongs to another user and the safe.directory exception sits in a config that
the build's own HOME override hides. That is exactly how this went unnoticed.
Not a regression -- build-ubunturepo produces byte-identical unsubstituted
placeholders in the same .git-less tree, verified by running it there. It is a
pre-existing hole that CD masks by writing Gitinfo in the pipeline.
Verified on xcat-master-ub: with a readable checkout the deb carries
'Version ' . '2.19.0' . ' (git commit 0030133c89)';
without one it carries '(git commit unknown)' and the build prints the warning
naming the tree, the command to run and the HOME to run it under. Nine
assertions drive modifyUtils itself -- stamping both forms, and each missing
argument -- and dropping either sed, or restoring the silent exit, reddens it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
xCAT-test/unit
Unit tests. These run against the source tree only -- no xCAT installation, no running daemons, no management node.
They are executed on every pull request by the xcat_test GitHub Actions workflow,
which calls run_unit_tests() in github_action_xcat_test.pl:
prove -r xCAT-test/unit
You can run exactly the same thing from a clean checkout:
cd <xcat-core checkout>
prove -r xCAT-test/unit
What belongs here
A test belongs in unit/ when everything it needs is in the checkout: plugin and
library sources, kickstart/preseed/subiquity templates, postscripts, packaging
metadata. Such a test asserts on rendered output or module logic and reaches the
repository root through FindBin:
use FindBin;
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../../perl-xCAT";
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../../xCAT-server/lib/perl";
Because of those FindBin paths the tests only work from a source tree. The copy
installed under /opt/xcat/share/xcat/tools/autotest/unit is not a substitute --
../.. resolves to /opt/xcat/share/xcat/tools there and the tests die or silently
skip. The CI takes a copy of the checkout before the build for this reason; see
preserve_source_tree().
What does not belong here
Anything that needs an installed xCAT, a populated /install, a real service binary
or a live daemon. Those go in ../integration and run on
a management node through xcattest. Both suites run on every pull request -- the
workflow installs xCAT on the runner and then runs the ci_test cases against it --
so putting a test in integration/ does not cost it CI coverage. What differs is what
each suite is allowed to depend on, and that unit tests also run standalone from a
bare checkout with no xCAT at all.
The distinction matters because a test that needs an absent environment does not fail
-- it calls plan skip_all and reports as skipped. A handful of those in a suite of
several hundred assertions is easy to stop reading. Keeping the two kinds in separate
directories means a skip in unit/ is a real signal rather than routine noise.
Guarding on a source file, on the other hand, is fine and common here:
plan skip_all => "compute.subiquity.tmpl not found" unless -f $tmpl_path;
That guard never fires when the tree is intact.