From 80b8949192f88550e5236d2a213b3a02f87e0508 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pino Toscano <ptoscano@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 07:13:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: allow setup of integration tests w/o running them

Add a convenience target in Makefile to perform all the setup targets
for integration tests without actually running them.
---
 Makefile  | 6 +++++-
 README.md | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 78770d5..baf00b5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -138,9 +138,13 @@ $(VM_IMAGE): $(TARFILE) $(NODE_CACHE) bots
 vm: $(VM_IMAGE)
 	echo $(VM_IMAGE)
 
+# convenience target to setup all the bits needed for the integration tests
+# without actually running them
+prepare-check: $(NODE_MODULES_TEST) $(VM_IMAGE) test/common
+
 # run the browser integration tests; skip check for SELinux denials
 # this will run all tests/check-* and format them as TAP
-check: $(NODE_MODULES_TEST) $(VM_IMAGE) test/common
+check: prepare-check
 	TEST_AUDIT_NO_SELINUX=1 test/common/run-tests
 
 # checkout Cockpit's bots for standard test VM images and API to launch them
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 488b781..a2cb534 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ the VM, possibly with extra options for tracing and halting on test failures
 
     TEST_OS=centos-8-stream test/check-application -tvs
 
+It is possible to setup the test environment without running the tests:
+
+    TEST_OS=centos-8-stream make prepare-check
+
 You can also run the test against a different Cockpit image, for example:
 
     TEST_OS=fedora-34 make check