[PATCHSET] enable ctdb's selftest in autobuild

[Michael Adam]

Comments on the list after a long irc discussions:

On 2013-11-27 at 17:25 +1100, Martin Schwenke wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:21:37 +0100, Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > attached is a patchset, I have been pair- and
> > ping-pong-programming with Martin and Amitay during
> > the last week or so.
> > 
> > It enables ctdb selftest in samba's autobuild.
> 
> A couple of things:
> 
> * Sorry, my suggestion to use $TEST_VAR_DIR was bogus.  It works with
>   local daemons (so helps in autobuild) but doesn't work when you run
>   the tests on a cluster because $TEST_VAR_DIR doesn't exist on the
>   cluster nodes.
> 
>   This patch:
> 
>     ctdb:tests: use TEST_VAR_DIR instead of /tmp in integration.bash
> 
>   can be dropped for now because the functionality is only used in
>   "complex" tests, which need a cluster to run on.  So, we don't need
>   this for autobuild.

Ok, we can do this for now, but it is not very robust. :-)

As discussed, I would like to split up integration.bash
so that is becomes more obvious which parts are used where.

>   The real fix is probably to create and ship 99.test (like 99.timeout
>   - probably replacing it).  I have a good idea of how to make it
>   work... and get rid of a lot of bogus code in integration.bash.  I
>   wrote that code but now I see a much better way.  :-)
> 
>   That said, can we please defer the following fix (and, therefore, the
>   whole patchset) for a few days?
> 
>     ctdb:tests: use TEST_VAR_DIR instead of /tmp in 76_ctdb_pdb_recovery.sh
> 
>   For the statd-callout rewrite we added a "ctdb ptrans" command that
>   reads data from stdin.  This solves the remote temporary file problem
>   by completely avoiding it.  Amitay is going to push those patches
>   very soon and then we could fix this properly by using "ctdb ptrans".

Sure. Sounds good.

> * Again, it was my suggestion to 2>/dev/null the output of the cat
>   commands in the ip stub.  However, in retrospect, we can just get rid
>   of them and replace them with "echo".  Then we shouldn't have a
>   broken pipe issue.  I've done this but haven't had time to push this
>   anywhere. Wanted to get a reply to you as quickly as possible...

Ok, I was wondering about the practice of cat-ing one-line
here-docucments anyways... :)

> Apart from that we could push most of the patchset, except the bit that
> actually makes it get run in autotest.  Let's ping-pong some
> more...  :-)

Right, will hack on the patches some more and ping back

Cheers - Michael

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