[Piuparts-devel] Bug#717125: Bug#717125: piuparts: New test: upgrade from directly to command line package file

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-07-17 06:54, Norbert Preining wrote:
> I think it makes sense to have also an option where first the
> stable variant is installed, and then with gdebi or similar the
> package on the commandline including its dependencies from unstable
> and necessary chagnes.

put debs into a local repository, e.g. /tmp/repo, run
  dpkg-scanpackages > Packages
there and add this to piuparts:

--bindmount /tmp/repo
--testdebs-repo /tmp/repo
--distupgrade-to-testdebs

Maybe we need to upgrade the documentation to make this more obvious.


Andreas