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
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
