[Piuparts-devel] using piuparts for automated custom tests on an official host

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Andreas,

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:41:02PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> for several years I've been running cross-distro file-overwrite tests
> locally and filing the resulting bugs ... perhaps it's time to automate
> these things, expose them publically and have britney consume the results.

yes, please!

> This uses dose and some scripts (based on work from Ralf Treinen) to
> compute the candidates, and then runs piuparts with some generated
> custom scripts to perform the actual tests. Reporting is currently in
> terminal: for each candidate pair of packages list the type of failure
> (overwrite, disappear, fail) and the direction ...

redirect into some log?

> I don't think this warrants some fancy master-slave model, since the
> amount of tests being performed is significantly lower than running
> piuparts on sid (only sid!).

ack

> And what I recently tried as well: install packages depending on
> something matching *emacs* along various combinations of emacs (and
> xemacs) packages.

ok...

> We would need some virtual host with some memory and cpu power, well
> connected to a local mirror that can run a webserver (to serve logfiles
> and summaries) and piuparts (just plain piuparts, no master, no slave) ...
> Being allowed to run piuparts is probably equivalent to having local
> root ...
> Could we get this from DSA?

I believe so, yes. I guess the next/first step would be to file an RT
ticket for that host, as described in https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA#Interacting_with_the_team


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tschüß,
	Holger

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