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+PISI test suite
+---------------
+
+
+There are python unit tests and shell scripts in this directory.
+
+Shell scripts use the CLIs to perform package operations.
+
+For this there must be a symlink "packages" to the PISI package repository
+until we can find a few sample packages to put here.