The premise behind the original behavior is that it would save people
from downloading Avocado (and other dependencies) if already installed
on the system. To be honest, I think it's extremely rare that the
same versions described as dependencies will be available on most
systems. But, the biggest motivations here are that:
1) Hacking on QEMU in the same system used to develop Avocado leads
to confusion with regards to the exact bits that are being used;
2) Not reusing Python packages from system wide installations gives
extra assurance that the same behavior will be seen from tests run
on different machines;
With regards to downloads, pip already caches the downloaded wheels
and tarballs under ~/.cache/pip, so there should not be more than
one download even if the venv is destroyed and recreated.
Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
---
tests/Makefile.include | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tests/Makefile.include b/tests/Makefile.include
index 8f220e15d1..63477c8b4b 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile.include
+++ b/tests/Makefile.include
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ AVOCADO_TAGS=$(patsubst %-softmmu,-t arch:%, $(filter
%-softmmu,$(TARGETS)))
$(TESTS_VENV_DIR): $(TESTS_VENV_REQ)
$(call quiet-command, \
- $(PYTHON) -m venv --system-site-packages $@, \
+ $(PYTHON) -m venv $@, \
VENV, $@)
$(call quiet-command, \
$(TESTS_VENV_DIR)/bin/python -m pip -q install -r
$(TESTS_VENV_REQ), \