PLEASE DO NOT COMMIT

These are the various hacks I had to use to handle all the read-only packaging
problems when implementing the fetching from git patches.

I do not know what the right way of doing this is, so I am just posting them
for completeness.

Please help. :-(

Cheers,
Don
---
 client/job.py             |    5 ++++-
 client/shared/base_job.py |    2 +-
 client/shared/test.py     |    2 +-
 global_config.ini         |    6 +++---
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/client/job.py b/client/job.py
index 4dadd00..2df78d3 100644
--- a/client/job.py
+++ b/client/job.py
@@ -296,8 +296,11 @@ class base_client_job(base_job.base_job):
         """
         Perform the packages support initialization.
         """
+        tmpdir = GLOBAL_CONFIG.get_config_value('COMMON',
+                                                'test_output_dir',
+                                                default=self.autodir)
         self.pkgmgr = packages.PackageManager(
-            self.autodir, run_function_dargs={'timeout':3600})
+            tmpdir, run_function_dargs={'timeout':3600})
 
 
     def _init_cmdline(self, extra_copy_cmdline):
diff --git a/client/shared/base_job.py b/client/shared/base_job.py
index 5ef699a..840bf21 100644
--- a/client/shared/base_job.py
+++ b/client/shared/base_job.py
@@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ class base_job(object):
 
         # Now tests are read-only modules
         self._testdir = readonly_dir(root, 'tests')
-        self._site_testdir = readonly_dir(root, 'site_tests')
+        self._site_testdir = readwrite_dir(tests_out_dir, 'site_tests')
 
         # various server-specific directories
         if self.serverdir:
diff --git a/client/shared/test.py b/client/shared/test.py
index e5435a6..8012087 100644
--- a/client/shared/test.py
+++ b/client/shared/test.py
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ def runtest(job, url, tag, args, dargs,
         # 'install_pkg' method will be present only if it's a client side job.
         if hasattr(job, 'install_pkg'):
             try:
-                bindir = os.path.join(job.testdir, testname)
+                bindir = os.path.join(job.site_testdir, testname)
                 job.install_pkg(testname, 'test', bindir)
             except error.PackageInstallError:
                 # continue as a fall back mechanism and see if the test code
diff --git a/global_config.ini b/global_config.ini
index 33f2b28..f3556c4 100644
--- a/global_config.ini
+++ b/global_config.ini
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ sql_debug_mode: False
 # The path for the toplevel autotest directory
 autotest_top_path: /usr/local/autotest
 # The path to look for test modules
-test_dir:
+test_dir: /var/lib/autotest/tests
 # The path for tests output directory
-test_output_dir:
+test_output_dir: /var/lib/autotest/
 
 [AUTOSERV]
 # Autotest potential install paths
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ drop_caches: False
 drop_caches_between_iterations: False
 # Specify an alternate location to store the test results
 #output_dir: /var/log/autotest/
-output_dir:
+output_dir: /var/lib/autotest
 # Log installed packages (recommended setting to True on server setups)
 log_installed_packages = False
 # Abort on client state mismatches post reboot (!= list of devices or CPUs)
-- 
1.7.1

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