Re: [PATCH] iotests: fix false positive on running-outside-venv warning

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 07.10.2026 um 20:33 hat John Snow geschrieben:
> Currently, iotests checks to see if you are running with the "correct"
> python interpreter by checking string equivalence between your current
> python and the configure-time venv python.
> 
> Depending on exactly *how* you launch or configure your python,
> however, this warning may produce false positives because it treats
> "python" as different from "python3" as different from
> e.g. "python3.12", even though they are all actually the same exact
> interpreter.
> 
> This patch fixes this by comparing only the parent directories; we
> will now be happy with any interpreter so long as it is located within
> build/pyvenv/bin/.
> 
> Note that we cannot fix this by resolving symlinks, as python venv
> binaries are often (but not always) just symlinks to /usr/bin/<etc>,
> and full resolution would produce even more false negatives.
> 
> Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin