On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:23 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > On 26.05.2012 [18:03:31 -0300], Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 16:31 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > Sometimes there are firewalls between test machines and the greater > > > Internet, so it seems unwise to depend upon external network access in > > > the boottool/grubby building code. But some sites won't have those > > > restrictions. Add the ability to configure a local mirror for the grubby > > > tarball in the CLIENT section, but default to the external location. > > > > The problem with this patch is that makes boottool dependent on autotest > > libraries, when the script itself is sometimes used in a stand alone > > fashion. Therefore, I can't accept this as is. > > Ah makes sense. I didn't realize boottool was used stand-alone, sorry. > > > Cleber, I believe we should try to locate and download boottool from the > > copy present in the autotest tree, before trying to reach out to github. > > What do you say? > > Ah I didn't even realize there was one in client/deps/grubby -- so, > would we try and push it out with the rest of autotest? I'm not sure > pulling will work, as the client/deps/grubby path isn't guaranteed (nor > is it setup to be, afaict) part of the web-exposed path.
This is what I'd like to do, find a way to ensure the grubby tarball gets copied when the client is installed. This way we wouldn't ever have to resort to an external copy. _______________________________________________ Autotest mailing list [email protected] http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest
