[Piuparts-devel] Bug#466043: piuparts: should have a hook to pre-process the chroot

[Marc Haber]

Package: piuparts
Version: 0.30
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

currently, it is not possible to do a piuparts upgrade test since
tzdata does not upgrade cleanly. I'd therefore like to pin tzdata to
stable inside the piuparts chroot.

That would be much easier if it were possible to have piuparts copy a
file (/etc/apt/preferences, of course) into the chroot before
beginning the tests. This could be done by having hooks to have
piuparts call at certain stages of the test.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2-zgsrv (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages piuparts depends on:
ii  apt                        0.7.10        Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  debootstrap                1.0.8         Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  lsb-release                3.1-24        Linux Standard Base version report
ii  lsof                       4.78.dfsg.1-4 List open files
ii  python                     2.4.4-6       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-debian              0.1.9         python modules to work with Debian

piuparts recommends no packages.

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