[LTP] [PATCH 13/13] metadata: Add runtest file generator

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> this is a bit controversial, because we would like to get rid of
> runtest files.

Eventually yes, but we will need this for the transition period. There
are a lot of systems out there using runtest files, including openQA. We
will have to keep the runtest files for a deprecation period, which will
last at least a year or two, before we can drop them. During that period
generating the runtest files is in my opinion the best option.

> Also, we should start thinking about moving tests variants inside the
> tst_test struct first, otherwise we will always generate runtest files
> which re not taking into account tests parameters.

One step at a time. There are quite a lot of test that does not have any
parameters. And quite a few that shouldn't have any parameters. I would
say that the -I parameter for CVE reproduces is a hack, because the test
is "broken" without any parameters, since the chances it triggers a bug
is really small.

There are test where the test variants needs to be encoded in the test
structure, these are mostly the I/O stress test where we encode
different offsets/sizes in the parameters. But that shouldn't stop us
from automating what can be automated already.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz