Add sudo support for Travis

Author: francozappa

.travis.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 #
 # Commits that have [ci skip] anywhere in the commit messages are ignored by Travis CI.
 
+# NOTE: Travis will use a non docker based infrastructure
+# NOTE: because of pymodbus
+sudo: required
+
 language: python
 
 branches:
@@ -12,17 +16,16 @@ python:
   - "2.6"
   - "2.7"
 
-# travis-ci automatically preinstalls
-#
+# NOTE: Travis-ci automatically preinstalls
 # pytest
 # nose
 # mock
 
-# travis-ci automatically installs
+# NOTE: Travis-ci automatically runs
 #
 # pip install -r requirements.txt
 
-# TODO: add mininet-based tests
+# TODO: Add mininet-based tests
 script: make tests-travis
 
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Makefile

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 MININET = sudo mn
 
 PYTHON = sudo python
-PYTHON_OPTS = 
+PYTHON_OPTS =
 
 # regex testMatch: (?:^|[b_.-])[Tt]est)
 # --exe: include also executable files
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@ PYTHON_OPTS =
 # TODO: add testing conditionals for verbosity, doctest plugin and coverage plugin
 # http://web.mit.edu/gnu/doc/html/make_7.html
 
-# sudo because of mininet
+# NOTE: sudo because of pymodbus and mininet
 TESTER = sudo nosetests
-TESTER_TRAVIS = nosetests
+# NOTE: sudo because of pymodbus
+TESTER_TRAVIS = sudo nosetests
 TESTER_OPTS = -s -v --exe  --rednose
 TESTER_OPTS_COV_HTML = $(TESTER_OPTS) --with-coverage --cover-html