Hi Holger! On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:38:34 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2012, Luca Capello wrote: >> I have patches to use it in a VirtualBox instance > > nice! but rather something else: I see babelbox more as a showcase for > events, > and surely it _can_ be used for testing too, but it's not a test framework, > and one needs to set it up locally. > > jenkins.d.n on the other hand is ment to run 24/365 and constantly test > (different sub-areas of) Debian. There are certainly tests outside of its > scope for a variety of reasons, but I do think d-i testing is done nicely > there.
I perfectly agree and I am sorry if my words sounded more like "you should use BabelBox instead" than "BabelBox can help here". Indeed, BabelBox already does at least the three tests you specifically mentioned: <http://lists.debian.org/201212052119.01562.hol...@layer-acht.org> - permutation through locale settings - partitioning recipes - boot the installed system, login and shutdown And my initial idea (yet to be completed) was to completely automate the creation of a BabelBox VM, which means that in theory at each commit of one of the d-i components you can test it in the VM: <http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Events/DebianEventsBox#stuff_to_do_with_a_demo_box> I am probably taking BabelBox too far away, but it is there ;-) Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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