There's no way to set a custom target prompt string

[Abner Silva]

Currently, the lava-dispatcher component set the target image (the one that will run the tests, not the master) to have a hostname called "linaro", by changing the /etc/hostname file. It also expects that the prompt string to have the 'linaro' string that it has set.

However, in some cases and images, we might want to set a different string from 'linaro'. A custom one that will represent better that target image. Thus, I suggest to have a device config option where we could set the target hostname depending on the image/device/target.

A configuration var called HOSTNAME_STR would be enough, as can be seen here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~abnerf/+junk/lava-dispatcher-custom/revision/351

However, I believe that the best way to implement it is changing the name of the current property 'hostname' defined inside the client/base.py. This property returns not the hostname, but the defined device name (which is the file name that represents the device inside the dispatcher configuration dir), which is used by conmux.

I believe that we could use the 'hostname' property to return the real defined hostname (as I suggested above by using HOSTNAME_STR) and create a new property that would represent the device name created inside the dispatcher config dir (which today is the hostname property). I guess it would make things more consistent and clear.

[Andy Doan (doanac)]

Our device-defaults.conf has an option:

 TESTER_STR = root@linaro

Could you not update that to do what you are wanting?

[Abner Silva (abnerf)]

That's part of the solution, indeed, but the dispatcher keeps changing the hostname to 'linaro'. It's hardcoded in there.

[Andy Doan (doanac)]

On 07/24/2012 12:37 PM, Abner Silva wrote:
> That's part of the solution, indeed, but the dispatcher keeps changing
> the hostname to 'linaro'. It's hardcoded in there.

This merge should help that issue:

https://code.launchpad.net/~qzhang/lava-dispatcher/add-tester_hostname/+merge/117752