Don't use sudo in python tests

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sat Oct 22 14:04:35 CEST 2022


On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 10:24:33AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> Hello Simon,
> 
> As described in doc/develop/py_testing.doc using sudo in python tests
> should be avoided.
> 
> * users building U-Boot may not be sudoers
> * running code as sudo comes with a risk
> 
> You added sudo in test/py/tests/test_ut.py
> 
> Can we use virt-make-fs here?

Note that virt-make-fs is only suitable for trivial cases as it's
otherwise too slow. This is possibly one of the cases where it's too
slow.

-- 
Tom
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