#20417 Cannot access `.ini` file from another directory Issue created by Nathan-Furnal Describe the bug I have a

alembic.ini

file to configure migrations, it sits in the root directory of the project. There doesn't seem to be a way to access that file in the

tests/

directory. Pants version 2.18.1 OS MacOS Additional info I tried to setup a

file

inside the

BUILD

file of the root directory.

file(
    name="alembic",
    source="alembic.ini"
)

Now, I just want to read that alembic file in the

conftest.py

which is in

tests/conftest.py

. Pants complains, when running

pants test ::

that there is no

alembic.ini

file. So, I tried to add a dependency in

tests/BUILD

, like:

python_test_utils(
    name="test_utils",
)

python_tests(
    name="tests",
    dependencies=[
        ":alembic"
    ]
)

This doesn't work as there is no

:alembic

file accessible apparently. How do I make that config file available to pants during testing? pantsbuild/pants