Fedora 32 reached End of Life on 25th May 2021:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/eol/
That's quite old because right now Fedora 35 is nearing its End of Life.
Since the tests are intended for Toolbx, not the Fedora infrastructure,
it will be better to use a newer image, because images that are too old
can get lost from registry.fedoraproject.org. The fedora-toolbox:34
image can be a drop-in replacement for the fedora-toolbox:32 image for
the purposes of this test suite, and has the advantage of being newer.
Note that fedora-toolbox:34 is also old enough to test that the toolbox
binary runs against it's build-time ABI from the host, and not the
Toolbx container's ABI, when it's invoked as the entry point of the
container [1,2]. This is important because the subsequent commit will
add a test to ensure that.
[1] Commit 6063eb27b9https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/821
[2] Commit 6ad9c63180https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/529https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/1187
Currently, the container name and release are only validated if they
were specified as command line options. Neither the value of release
in the configuration file nor the container name generated from an
image are validated.
There's also a lot of repeated code in the command front-ends to
validate the container name and release. This opens the door for
mistakes. Any adjustment to the code must be repeated elsewhere, and
there are subtle interactions and overlaps between the validation code
and the code to resolve container and image names.
It's worth noting that the container and image name resolution happens
for both the command line and configuration file options, and generates
the container name from the image when necessary.
Therefore, validating everything while resolving cleans up the command
front-ends and increases the coverage of the validation.
This introduces the use of sentinel error values and custom error
implementations to identify the different errors that can occur while
resolving the container and images, so that they can be appropriately
shown to the user.
https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/1101
Currently, if an invalid or unsupported string is specified as the
distro on the command line or in the configuration file, then it would
silently fallback to Fedora. This shouldn't happen.
It should only fallback to Fedora when no distro was specified and
there's no supported Toolbox image matching the host operating system.
If a distro was explicitly specified then it should either be supported
or it should error out.
The test cases were resurrected from commit 8b6418d8aa.
https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/937https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/1080
Using a non-supported distribution via `--distro` resulted in a silent
fallback to the Fedora image which confuses users. When a faulty release
format was used with `--release` a message without any hint about the
correct format was shown to the user.
This separates distro and release parsing into two chunks that have
greater control over error reporting and provides more accurate error
reports for the user.
Fixes https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/937https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/977
Instead of typing out two function names to set up the test environment,
type out only one. We never know if a new set up function will show up.
https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/818
This allows to run the test suite without having to worry about blasting
the whole local state of Podman.
This is done by creating a configuration file with a custom path for the
storage of Podman and specifying the config file using an env var.
The used location for the temporary storage is located either under
XDG_CACHE_HOME and if the one is not defined, $HOME/.cache is used
instead. The data are namespaced. This follows the XDG Base Directory
Specification[0]. Other locations could be /tmp or /run but those
locations usually use tmpfs and that filesystem can not be used by
Podman[1] due to missing features in tmpfs.
https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/818
[0] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/index.html
[1] https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/10693#issuecomment-863007516
A subsequent commit will add support for configuration files, which can
override the default toolbox image. Since this override affects all
commands, it effectively ends up adding a fourth option to the 'enter'
command, other than the existing options to change the distribution,
release and container. This makes it a lot more difficult to reason
when only 'toolbox enter --release N' is enough to enter the created
container.
https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/828https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/851
Since the rewrite of the system test suite[0] we've relied on the Zuul
playbooks for taking care of caching images using Skopeo for increasing
the reliability of the tests (in the past the instability of the Fedora
registry caused problems). This state is problematic if we want to use
the tests in other environments than the Zuul CI. This moves the caching
from Zuul into the system tests.
Currently, Bats does not support officially suite-wide setup and
teardown functions. The solution I chose was to add two new test files
that are executed before and after all tests. This may complicate the
execution of cherry-picked tests but that is not a very common use case
anyway.
The tests are now to some extent capable of adjusting to the host
environment. This is meant in the sense of: I'm running on RHEL, the
"default image" is UBI; I'm running on Fedora, the "default image" is
fedora-toolbox. This mechanism relies on os-release, which is the same
as what Toolbox itself uses.
[0] https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/517https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/774
The fedora-toolbox:32 image is the first of images in the renamed
toolbox image repository[0]. With the change we can drop the
pull_image_old() function because it was kept only for the old image.
Seems like newer version of ShellCheck checks the validity of variable
names (SC2153). This caused a false positive, so I silenced it.
[0] https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/615https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/780
The system test refactor[0] replaced the 'run_toolbox' helper function
with 'run toolbox', which is a normal invocation of Toolbox. This makes
it impossible to override Toolbox used during the tests using env var.
[0] https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/693
The bats-support[0] and bats-assert[1] libraries extend the
capabilities of bats[2]. Mainly, bats-assert is very useful for clean
checking of values/outputs/return codes.
Apart from updating the cases to use the libraries, the test cases have
been restructured in a way that they don't depend on each other anymore.
This required major changes in the helpers.bats file.
Overall, the tests are cleaner to read and easier to extend due to the
test cases being independent.
Some slight changes were made to the test cases themselves. Should not
alter their final behaviour.
There will be a follow up commit that will take care of downloading of
the tested images locally and caching them using Skopeo to speedup the
tests and try to resolve network problems when pulling the images that
we experienced in the past.
[0] https://github.com/bats-core/bats-support
[1] https://github.com/bats-core/bats-assert
[2] https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core
The tests introduced by commit b5cdc57ae3 have proven to be
rather unstable due to mistakes in their design. The tests were quite
chaotically structured, and because of that images were deleted and
pulled too often, causing several false positives [1, 2].
This changes the structure of the tests in a major way. The tests
(resp. commands) are now run in a manner that better simulates the way
Toolbox is actually used. From a clean state, through creating
containers, using them and in the end deleting them. This should
reduce the strain on the bandwidth and possibly even speed up the
tests themselves.
[1] https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/372
[2] https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/374https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/375
These tests are written using BATS (Bash Automated Testing System). I
used a very helpful helpers.bash script from the libpod project (Thank
you!) that I tweaked slightly.
https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/68
