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    component/nxdtest: Prepare for nexedi/nxdtest!13 · 5b647b39
    Kirill Smelkov authored
    Prepare for upcoming nxdtest changes to run each testcase with its own
    /tmp and /dev/shm:
    
    1) put unshare from SlapOS component into $PATH, so that our version is
       used even if OS provides /bin/unshare. As @jerome explains we need
       features that were added relatively recently and are missing in unshare
       on Debian 10: nexedi/nxdtest!13 (comment 146752)
    
       It is anyway better to "isolate" from OS by using our own component
       instead of system-provided one.
    
       Correspondingly adjust util-linux to enable unshare in its build.
    
    2) similarly to "1" adjust util-linux to enable mount so that our version
       is used instead of /bin/mount. For example on Debian 9, even if we
       successfully enter user/mount namespace with `unshare -Umc`
    
           /bin/mount -t tmpfs none /tmp
    
       complains that
    
           mount: only root can use "--types" option
    
       -> Fix it the same way as with unshare by forcing usage of
       SlapOS-provided mount.
    
    3) rework how nxdtest script is generated and split it into .nxdtest.pyexe and
       nxdtest itself. .nxdtest.pyexe is python interpreter via which nxdtest is run.
       This interpreter has all eggs required by nxdtest in sys.path, so that
       nxdtest could spawn its trun.py via sys.executable. If we don't care to have
       properly setup sys.executable, trun.py will fail when importing any module that
       nxdtest.py could already successfully import.
    
       Initially I tried to workaround this issue via adjusting $PYTHONPATH <-
       sys.path in main nxdtest script, but @jerome points out that, $PYTHONPATH,
       if set, also affects processes that trun.py spawns, which is not good:
    
       nexedi/slapos!1095 (comment 146799)
    
       -> so fix this via running nxdtest via environment where sys.executable is
       properly setup python interpreter with path for all eggs that nxdtest has
       access to.
    
       Because we already have half-way workarounds for similar problem in several
       places, and because running a script with correctly setup sys.executable is
       generally better, I would say it should be a good idea to rework
       zc.recipe.egg:scripts to generate all scripts to work this way, but I do not
       want to fight about it.
    
       So let's leave this scheme nxdtest-specific for now.
    
    /cc @tomo
    /helped-by @jerome
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