[Beaker-devel] Test framework for lshw
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at redhat.com
Tue Jul 30 06:58:53 UTC 2013
On 07/30/2013 04:35 PM, Amit Saha wrote:
> One approach that I can think of is:
>
> - Add an extra option to lshw -s specifying the location of the snapshot
>
> - When this is set, we can set an environment variable to point
> to the location of the snapshot. In all the files where the information
> is read from the file systems, before opening the file, we check
> for this environment variable, and if it exists, we read the files from there instead.
>
>
> And of course, matching the expected output, etc follows after that.
>
> Would be interested in any feedback.
It would be nice if this could be strictly a test harness thing rather
than requiring changes to lshw. Can we play games by invoking lshw in an
appropriately configured chroot instead?
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Infrastructure Engineering & Development, Brisbane
Testing Solutions Team Lead
Beaker Development Lead (http://beaker-project.org/)
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