Re: [PATCH 2/6] iotests: add warning for rogue 'qemu' packages

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 08:16:21PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> Add a warning for when 'iotests' runs against a qemu namespace that
> isn't the one in the source tree. This might occur if you have
> (accidentally) installed the Python namespace package to your local
> packages.

IIUC, it is/was a valid use case to run the iotests on arbitrary
QEMU outside the source tree ie a distro packaged binary set.

Are we not allowing the tests/qemu-iotests/* content to be
run outside the context of the main source tree for this
purpose ?

eg  consider if Fedora/RHEL builds put tests/qemu-iotests/* into
a 'qemu-iotests' RPM, which was installed and used with a distro
package python-qemu ?

> (I'm not going to say that this is because I bit myself with this,
> but. You can fill in the blanks.)
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/testenv.py | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/testenv.py b/tests/qemu-iotests/testenv.py
> index 88104dace90..8a43b193af5 100644
> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/testenv.py
> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/testenv.py
> @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
>  # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>  #
>  
> +import importlib.util
> +import logging
>  import os
>  import sys
>  import tempfile
> @@ -25,7 +27,7 @@
>  import random
>  import subprocess
>  import glob
> -from typing import List, Dict, Any, Optional, ContextManager
> +from typing import List, Dict, Any, Optional, ContextManager, cast
>  
>  DEF_GDB_OPTIONS = 'localhost:12345'
>  
> @@ -112,6 +114,22 @@ def init_directories(self) -> None:
>          # Path where qemu goodies live in this source tree.
>          qemu_srctree_path = Path(__file__, '../../../python').resolve()
>  
> +        # warn if we happen to be able to find 'qemu' packages from an
> +        # unexpected location (i.e. the package is already installed in
> +        # the user's environment)
> +        qemu_spec = importlib.util.find_spec('qemu.qmp')
> +        if qemu_spec:
> +            spec_path = Path(cast(str, qemu_spec.origin))
> +            try:
> +                _ = spec_path.relative_to(qemu_srctree_path)
> +            except ValueError:
> +                self._logger.warning(
> +                    "WARNING: 'qemu' package will be imported from outside "
> +                    "the source tree!")
> +                self._logger.warning(
> +                    "Importing from: '%s'",
> +                    spec_path.parents[1])

It feels to me like the scenario  we're blocking here is actally
the scenario we want to aim for.

Regards,
Daniel
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