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Daniel Hilst a5f670a4cc refactor(build): share the buildinfo stamp between the two builders
Both builders wrote the same six fields beside a published repository --
VERSION, RELEASE, BUILD_TIME, BUILD_MACHINE, COMMIT_ID, COMMIT_ID_LONG -- each
assembling them by hand, and each shelling out to hostname to do it.

builddebs.pl also ran git rev-parse a second time to get the commit, although
it had already derived the same value into $GITINFO earlier in the file. It now
uses that.

The filenames and the time formats stay as they were. deploy.sh copies
builddebs.pl's buildinfo verbatim and cluster-test.pl parses buildrpms.pl's
buildinfo.txt, so both are a contract with consumers outside this repository;
the shared helper takes the format from its caller rather than picking one.
Confirmed byte for byte that each builder's stamp is unchanged.

Covered by tests: the field names and their order, the seven-character short
commit, and that the two callers' formats still differ.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-02 12:39:44 -03:00
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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.