On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:01:41PM -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2017-01-23 18:41:25, Bálint Réczey wrote: > [ratt: cool! though i am not sure when i should use that...?] > > > The other tool I would love to use for LTS work is a private > > https://ci.debian.net/ installation for running autopkgtests or > > reverse dependencies. > > > > To make it happen I'm thinking about spending a few hours on creating > > a puppet module for it to automate installation in a VM. What do you > > think? > > regarding ci... i am not sure how useful that would be for me. right > now, i just run a wheezy VM inside qemu and install stuff by hand in > there. since i need a clean VM every time, setting up the whole CI env > would seem to be a significant overhead, no? > > besides, i expect the build process to run tests.. autopkgtest i usually > run by hand later, if at all - i am usually more concerned about testing > with the POC data from advisories... > > but it would be great to have a more standard and, more importantly, > documented setup, as I have spent quite a bit of personal time finding > the right workflow for that kind of stuff here (which mostly revolves > around pdebuild, cowbuilder, vmdebootstrap and qemu right now).
I'm using /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B20autopkgtest to run the tests within pbuilder (that does not help with reverse dependencies testing). Cheers, -- Guido > > i'd be happy to participate in such a documentation / standardization > effort in any case. > > a. > > -- > Drowning people > Sometimes die > Fighting their rescuers. > - Octavia Butler >
