action #97112
Updated by okurz 2 days ago
## Motivation
See the unexpected current default behaviour in #94735
## Acceptance criteria
* **AC1:** For test distributions that include needles when tests triggered with CASEDIR git URL pointing to a git test 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
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Discussed with mkittler and livdywan. cdywan. 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
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