Re: [Tarantool-patches] [PATCH v2] test: fix OSX host setup

[Alexander Turenko <alexander.turenko@tarantool.org>]

> >> >> + brew update || echo | /usr/bin/ruby -e \
> >> >> + "$(curl -fsSL  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install )"
> >> >
> >> >Why don't update formulae after installing brew?
> >>
> >> The tapped formula does not exist in brew any more, though it can’t be
> >> updated.
> >
> >After installing brew you'll have fresh brew, but no formulae, I guess.
> >Will the next `brew install` work? I guess, no. You need `brew update`
> >after this.
>
> I’ve tried to remove the brew and reinstalled it with this command,
> seems that all needed updates were tried to do during the
> installation:

Okay so.

> >> >From the previous review [1]:
> >> >
> >> >> > The problem with 'var' directory is not related to the new way to Python
> >> >> > 2 installation? Why everything is in one commit?
> >> >>
> >> >> This commit is about OSX host setup for building and testing, so I
> >> >> think it is ok to set it here.
> >> >
> >> >It sounds as 'because something going not right, when something was
> >> >changed'. Neat reason.
> >> >
> >> >I cannot say neither 'ok', not 'not ok' for this. Okay, I can guess that
> >> >working directory is changed somehow, but why and where?
> >>
> >> ‘var’ directory lays too deep at the path and the length of the path
> >> is too long for test-run.py tool which fails because of it, the
> >> solution to fix it is to use the short link for the ‘var’ directory.
> >
> >Why it was okay, but becomes too long?
> Because the name of the user on the new mac mini and its home path is really long
> echo ~ | wc -c
>       28
> also the path of tarantool/test/var adds.

Okay, so it worth to state something like:

> We're going to enable new Mac machines into CI and usernames on them
> are long according to internal policies. It makes a home directory to
> be long too and so a path to a unix socket created during testing can
> be longer then UNIX_PATH_MAX constant (108). Move the working
> directory for testing into <...>.

It would be also good to link the issue, which describes some details
around the path length limit:
https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/issues/4634