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

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Andreas, hi Holger,

On Mi, 17 Jul 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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

Yes, thanks, that is what I was searching for.

I did exactely this manually in a cowbuilder chroot, but having
piuparts doing some of these things automatically would be great.

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

Please, yes.

On Mi, 17 Jul 2013, Holger Levsen wrote:
> what do you expect it to do? (I also dont understand the bug title, care to 
> explain?)

Sorry, the bug title was rubbish.

What I want is
* install <pkg> in wheezy
* dist-upgrade to sid but use <pkg> from the command line instead of unstable

The reason is that some code in the postinst scripts is only triggered 
on upgrades from wheezy, and not from unstable.

So an upgrade path
	wheezy -> sid -> testpackage
will not help.

Thanks

Norbert

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