Manually merged the the part of PR134 which involves the github hooks, which

are only part of the specific github branches.
Credits for the original unit test framework and this unification work to move
all tests into containers goes out to Alex Burke (albu-diku)

Author: jonasbardino

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
           make dependencies
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
-          make test
+          make unittest
 
   python3-rocky9:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ jobs:
           make dependencies
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
-          make test
+          make unittest
 
   python3-rocky8:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ jobs:
           make dependencies
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
-          make test
+          make unittest
 
   python2-latest:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -82,8 +82,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Setup environment
         run: |
-          pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt -r local-requirements.txt
+          make PYTHON_BIN=python PY=2 dependencies
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
-          PYTHON_BIN=python ./envhelp/makeconfig test --python2
-          MIG_ENV='local' python -m unittest discover -s tests/
+          make PYTHON_BIN=python PY=2 unittest