On Wed Sep 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM CEST, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 10/09/2025 11.00, Claudio Imbrenda wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:57:17 +0200 >> "Nico Boehr" <nrb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Tue Sep 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM CEST, Thomas Huth wrote: >>>> For checking whether a panic event occurred, a simple "grep" >>>> for the related text in the output is enough - it's very unlikely >>>> that the output of QEMU will change. This way we can drop the >>>> dependency on the program "jq" which might not be installed on >>>> some systems. >>> >>> Trying to understand which problem you're trying to solve here. >>> >>> Is there any major distribution which doesn't have jq in its repos? Or any >>> reason why you wouldn't install it? >> >> I think it's just a matter of trying to avoid too many dependencies, >> especially for something this trivial > > Yes ... actually, a while ago, I noticed that I was never running this test > on fresh installations since "jq" is not there by default. I guess it's the > same for many other people, too, since we don't really tell them to install > "jq" first. > > So let's give this patch a try for a while, and if we run into problems, we > can still revert it. Acked-by: Nico Boehr <nrb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
