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W dniu 22.03.2013 20:41, Antonio Terceiro pisze:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:19:40AM +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>> Next thing is distro dependencies. For example perf test done for 
>> Ubuntu. First thing it does is finding out which exactly perf
>> package it needs and install it. Why this is not done on image
>> generation time? Especially when we know that all rootfs images we
>> make end in LAVA...
> 
> IMO including everything needed for every test in the images does
> not scale. When we have 100 tests, each one requiring 1 package, do
> we want to have 100 extra packages in every image?

Good point.

> Also, everyone creating new tests would have to coordinate with the
> teams that create images, which increases the communications overhead
> and adds bottlenecks.

+1


>> And can this part be moved to install-ubuntu.sh script so for OE I
>> could just reuse script instead of creating a copy of it? Probably
>> similar would be with others.
> 
> I think we should provide means for tests to install dependencies in
> a cross-distro way, by having the tests declare a list of packages
> that need to need to be installed a before it is executed.
> 
> In Ubuntu, that list of packages would be passed to `apt-get
> install`, while in OE it would be passed into `opkg install`, etc.

We can not use 'opkg install' cause with OE we do not have software
repositories. Of course we could create them but in this case I prefer
to add packages into image rather than maintain repository.
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