On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:49:29AM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:46:02AM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: > > > > It'd be really cool to see people jump in there and get release upgrades > > tested early in the game so we can get packages fixed before release. > > We plan to do more (and better) automatic testing for feisty, this > will also include universe to a certain extend. > > But it seems to me like we also need a easier way to test selected > upgrades. I was thinking of a application in the spirit of pbuilder > that can be used to simulate a upgrade. It would be based on the > current ReleaseUpgrader and run a upgrade in a chroot.
Michael, I wonder if you have looked at piuparts. My understanding is that it already uses a chroot to check package installation and upgrade. It currently uses apt-get, maybe it's easier to make piuparts use the Ubuntu update manager, instead of writing a new upgrade testing tool? Ming 2006.11.04 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
