Add support for Ubuntu

[connorkuehl]

Hello,

I'm interested in making Ubuntu a supported platform for running the autotest-docker tests. I read through some of the issues and PRs on this repo and saw occasional comments referring to Ubuntu support and the complexities involved with it.

I'd be happy to contribute in any way I can to making this work. I think a lot of Ubuntu users have come to depend on Docker and would benefit from having autotest-docker available to them.

How can I help? I saw this comment which refers to making an SELinux python package work on Ubuntu. Would that be a good place to start?

[edsantiago]

Hi Connor,

Thanks for your interest. As you might have noticed from the git commit history, autotest-docker is pretty much abandoned. Although it's a comprehensive set of tests, it's difficult to maintain; and when it does detect a real problem, it can take an hour or two of SME time to figure out a simple reproducer. Cost/benefit is too low.

If you'd like to try it anyway, the first question is, does Ubuntu still have/support python2? autotest-docker will not work with python3, and converting has proven painful. If you have python2 available, and want to try, my usual recipe for running is something like:

• git-checkout autotest/autotest into host:/var/lib/autotest
• git-checkout autotest/autotest-docker into host:/var/lib/autotest/client/tests/docker
• as root on host, cd /var/lib/autotest/client; ./autotest-local run docker

Best wishes, and good luck.

[connorkuehl]

Hi Ed,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! If autotest-docker is abandoned, is there an(y) active project where I can contribute to docker testing?

[edsantiago]

The main reason for moving away from autotest-docker is that Red Hat is concentrating on the podman tool instead of docker. Have you tried using podman?