Re: [PATCH 2/4] meta-selftest: add selftest-ed recipes

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 17:24 +0000, Joshua Lock wrote:
> The oe-selftest oescripts.TestScripts.test_cleanup_workdir was using
> gzip and the GPLv2 variant to test cleanup of the workdir. This broke
> with the removal of GPLv2 recipes from OE-Core.
> 
> Instead of relying on recipes in OE-Core remaining static we should
> ensure that meta-selftest provides recipes required for the tests to pass.
> To that end we take a copy of the current GPLv2 and GPLv3 variants of ed
> and include them in meta-selftest as new recipes.
> We chose ed over gzip as gzip has dependencies which would require
> additional GPLv2 recipes to be included in meta-selftest.

Wouldn't the test become faster when using artificial recipes, i.e.
something which doesn't really need sources? Such an artificial recipe
can use a local file as its "source", for example.

Or did I misunderstand something and the selftest doesn't really build
ed?

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