There is a key difference between Fedora and RHEL. Fedora has pcs as a
noarch package which causes it to be installed into /usr/lib rather
than /usr/lib64. This means that bundled packages have a different path.
This caused import errors in tests.
There is also a better way of setting the environment variables -
through tmt instead of the preparation script.
When backporting the gating changes in Fedora, I found out that they are
not backwards compatible with odl RPM. While I could just roll back the
incomptabile changes as I did in that older Fedora branch, I'm not going
to do that. Because this branch is supposed to be upstream of the eln
brnach with Fedora that includes the new RPM version, this should make
the testing run both with older and newer RPM versions.
Sometimes changes to the helper script for the gating plan are needed
without a ticket. Since this is a shell script, it is not exempt from
dist-git policy that requires a ticket for any non-test change. The
gating plan itself is a fmf file which is exempt, so only this used to
be a problem in the past.
Because of the STI test format, the whole tests folder is exempt too.
Moving the helper script there to avoid the need for tickets.
The deprecated STI gating test definition is removed in favor of
flexible metadata format (fmf). This fixes testing in Testing Farm
which is enabled in CentOS Stream merge requests.
This is not the final version, some workarounds were needed. Most
notable ones are patching sources which is not yet supported by
tmt (test management tool - used to run tests in Testing Farm).
Tmt also does not download rubygems, so a macro was put in place
to avoid errors while trying to copy them in the prep phase of rpmbuild.
To ensure smooth build process in the future, we will test that the new
gating test definition will match the previous result without changing
the package content.
Resolves: RHEL-15217
