Bug#886332: autopkgtest-virt-qemu: how to make persistent dist-upgrades

2023-03-06 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, On 2019-11-11 00:01, Johannes Schauer wrote: >> Johannes, have you found a solution in the meanwhile? I just stumbled over this bug. Package sbuild-qemu has the 'sbuild-qemu-update' utility which dist-upgrades images created by autopkgtest-build-qemu. There's also an sbuild-qemu-boot utilit

Bug#886332: autopkgtest-virt-qemu: how to make persistent dist-upgrades

2019-11-10 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Francesco, Quoting Francesco Poli (2019-11-10 16:38:56) > On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 22:45:37 +0100 Martin Pitt wrote: > > [...] > > Johannes Schauer [2018-01-12 14:27 +0100]: > [...] > > > When I added the autopkgtest backend to sbuild in addition to schroot, I > > > did > > > this with the long t

Bug#886332: autopkgtest-virt-qemu: how to make persistent dist-upgrades

2019-11-10 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 22:45:37 +0100 Martin Pitt wrote: [...] > Johannes Schauer [2018-01-12 14:27 +0100]: [...] > > When I added the autopkgtest backend to sbuild in addition to schroot, I did > > this with the long term goal in mind that at some point I could also update > > the > > sbuild-updat

Bug#886332: autopkgtest-virt-qemu: how to make persistent dist-upgrades

2018-01-27 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Johannes, Johannes Schauer [2018-01-12 14:27 +0100]: > My central question: is it totally out of scope for autopkgtest to support > modifying the underlying base image? IMHO yes, as I laid out in my previous reply. I don't want autopkgtest to get into the business of being a "VM manager", a

Bug#886332: autopkgtest-virt-qemu: how to make persistent dist-upgrades

2018-01-12 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Martin, Quoting Martin Pitt (2018-01-04 16:19:07) > Johannes Schauer [2018-01-04 15:46 +0100]: > > 2. document which options to use so that the qemu image is persistently > > upgraded every time that sbuild runs autopkgtest > > The point of autopkgtest is to use ephemeral overlays, not to

Bug#886332: autopkgtest-virt-qemu: how to make persistent dist-upgrades

2018-01-04 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Johannes, Johannes Schauer [2018-01-04 15:46 +0100]: > my use case is: use the autopkgtest qemu backend with sbuild. This works > well after having created the image with vmdebootstrap but after a while > the image has to be persistently upgraded. It would be nice if you could > either: > >

Bug#886332: autopkgtest-virt-qemu: how to make persistent dist-upgrades

2018-01-04 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.1 Severity: wishlist Hi, my use case is: use the autopkgtest qemu backend with sbuild. This works well after having created the image with vmdebootstrap but after a while the image has to be persistently upgraded. It would be nice if you could either: 1. document