Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v2] scripts/arch-run.bash: Drop the dependency on "jq"

["Nico Boehr" <nrb@linux.ibm.com>]

On Wed Sep 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM CEST, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 10/09/2025 11.00, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:57:17 +0200
>> "Nico Boehr" <nrb@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue Sep 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM CEST, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>> For checking whether a panic event occurred, a simple "grep"
>>>> for the related text in the output is enough - it's very unlikely
>>>> that the output of QEMU will change. This way we can drop the
>>>> dependency on the program "jq" which might not be installed on
>>>> some systems.
>>>
>>> Trying to understand which problem you're trying to solve here.
>>>
>>> Is there any major distribution which doesn't have jq in its repos? Or any
>>> reason why you wouldn't install it?
>> 
>> I think it's just a matter of trying to avoid too many dependencies,
>> especially for something this trivial
>
> Yes ... actually, a while ago, I noticed that I was never running this test 
> on fresh installations since "jq" is not there by default. I guess it's the 
> same for many other people, too, since we don't really tell them to install 
> "jq" first.
>
> So let's give this patch a try for a while, and if we run into problems, we 
> can still revert it.

Acked-by: Nico Boehr <nrb@linux.ibm.com>