Re: [docs] [PATCH v3] test-manual: add initial reproducible builds documentation

["Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2021-06-09 at 17:55 +0200, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 04:47:28PM +0200, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
> 
> > +
> > +You could subclass the test and change ``targets`` to a different target.
> > +
> > +You may also change ``sstate_targets`` which would allow you to "pre-cache" some
> > +set of recipes before the test, meaning they are excluded from reproducibility
> > +testing. As a practical example, you could set ``sstate_targets`` to
> > +``core-image-sato``, then setting ``targets`` to ``core-image-sato-sdk`` would
> > +run reproducibility tests only on the targets belonging only to ``core-image-sato-sdk``.
> > -- 
> 
> I'm not sure this section has its place in our documentation since it
> seems bound to the current implementation and explains modifications of
> the code.
> 
> I'd vote it out.

Doesn't most of the manual document the current implementation?

When this wasn't here, you wanted an example! I do agree we should give people 
some kind of a hint about how to write their own tests. We're likely going to end 
up adding more example, not less?

Cheers,

Richard