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Motivation¶

In #155062 we moved os-autoinst to tidyall from os-autoinst-common via a subrepo.

os-autoinst-distri-opensuse is still using tools/tidy which is a symlink to the old tools/tidy in the "manually" cloned os-autoinst repo as a subdirectory.

It should use the new tidyall script by using os-autoinst-common as a subrepo or submodule.
The perltidy version should go into os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/cpanfile directly instead of using the one from os-autoinst.
Updating the subrepo or submodule should happen via a make target.

Also it should be checked if cloning os-autoinst in os-autoinst-distri-opensuse is still necessary. make prepare installs some perl modules from os-autoinst's cpanfile https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/blob/master/Makefile#L11 but that shouldn't be needed as we have rpm packages for that.

• AC1: os-autoinst-distri-opensuse uses tidyall from os-autoinst-common and maintains its own Perl::Tidy version in cpanfile
• AC2: Cloning os-autoinst in os-autoinst-distri-opensuse is obsolete (if possible)

Suggestions¶

• If we use a subrepo, a make subrepo-update should simply do a subrepo clone --force to avoid any conflicts which can sometimes happen due to a restriction of git-subrepo. Also, updates of os-autoinst-common is probably not necessary very often.
  • Advantage: for users the subrepo is just there, as it is a simple subdirectory in git with a special status file, so they don't need to clone any submodules
  • Disadvantage: os-autoinst-common now contains quite some files and they would only be needed for development. A submodule would only clone them on request