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[Sergio Schvezov <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Thomi Richards <
thomi.richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Do we have any thoughts on how we would go about getting those bits on
>> the phone once we move to read-only testing? Andy/Sergio/Thomi?
>>
>
>
> This is part of a more generic problem, that affects more than just the
> web-browser app. Essentially there are two paths to a possible solution:
>
> 1) Get an overlayFS working on the phone. Any time you want to test
> something, you start the overlayFS, install your autopilot test suite +
> deps, run the tests, and then kill the overlayFS afterwards. Nothing
> touches the base image.
>
> 2) Install everything into /home/phablet (or some other writable space),
> and patch LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PYTHON_PATH, HOME, and a bunch of other
> variables.
>
> It may be obvious by now, but I far prefer the first solution. The QA
> department are talking with the Kernel developers to see what we can do in
> this department. We hope to have more information by the end of the Oakland
> sprint. Perhaps we can postpone this conversation until we meet in Oakland?
>

Not everyone is going to Oakland though. So if you want to postpone it, do
it until UDS.