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Motivation¶

See the unexpected current default behaviour in #94735

Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: For tests with CASEDIR pointing to a git repo including tests+needles by default needles from that repo should be used and not a non-git default repo

Suggestions¶

• To understand how the current behaviour is it is suggested to trigger tests with CASEDIR=https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-example because the example distribution includes needles in the same repo

• Discussed with mkittler and livdywan. We propose to shift more logic into os-autoinst and implement an additional keyword so that os-autoinst looks up only a fallback needles repo in case needles are not found anywhere else. Also we assume that os-autoinst is easier to change and maintain. The current proposal is to use NEEDLES_DIR=[<keyword>]<dir>, e.g. NEEDLES_DIR=[fallback]my/productdir/needles for a relative fallback directory. The only suggested to be supported keyword should be "fallback" for now.

• In os-autoinst parse keyword from NEEDLES_DIR

• If "[fallback]" then try to find needles in all default paths, e.g. subdir of casedir, productdir, etc., only if not found look up in the fallback one

• Prepare setting fallback in openQA Worker/Engines/isotovideo.pm but do not merge yet

• Deploy new feature in os-autoinst

• Wait grace period

• Deploy openQA feature