[Piuparts-devel] wheezy statistics after allowing database servers to be started

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Andreas,

On Freitag, 23. März 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> here are some statistics from the wheezy test on my instance:
> 
> 35107 passed
> 26    failed (3 not bugged - deluser missing during purge)
> 19    dependency-failed-testing
> 6     dependency-does-not-exist (arch:all packages that depend on
>             something that only exists on i386)

wow, neat!
 
> most of the failures on piatti can be fixed by allowing mysql/postgresql
> in the chroot

ok, sounds sensible.

> This also needs a manually maintained list of packages that need but
> don't depend on a database server (to allow remote db), so that a
> pre_install script installs that service.

sigh, but so be it.

> For upgrades its a bit more difficult, I've seen cases where apt-get
> distupgrade chose to remove mysql-server instead of upgrading it ... 

this sounds like an incomplete transition... (but nothing we should work 
around, IMO)


cheers,
	Holger