On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:19:23PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > In a chrooted environment, we can install deboostrap and > > package dependencies through APT. > > About 6 months ago I started writing some code in expect to do just this, to > test my quake2-data installer package. I was able to install the package > into an UML machine, answer the debconf questions, and check the location of > the installed files (being an installer package, not all files installed by > the package are in the deb). > > I haven't touched this code for a long time, but I've been meaning to clean > it up and start doing regression testing on parts of the archive. I envisage > being able to run it once a week on the entire archive, testing the > ability of every pacakge to cleanly upgrade from woody to sarge, and back > again.
Nice! How does it work exactly? How do you write tests? Do you have scenarii or something? -- Jérôme Marant
