Don't use sudo in python tests

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

Am 22. Oktober 2022 20:44:27 MESZ schrieb Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>:
>On 10/22/22 08:04, Tom Rini wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>
>An easy way to do this is to use fuse2fs/fusefat.

My experience with fusefat is that it was terribly buggy 2-3 years ago.

Last upstream source is from 2018.

Best regards

Heinrich 

>
>--Sean