[Piuparts-devel] Bug#899000: piuparts: allow running tests in lxc and VM backends

[Francesco Poli]

On Fri, 18 May 2018 14:07:07 +0200 Balint Reczey <balint.reczey at canonical.com> wrote:
> Package: piuparts
> Version: 0.86
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainers,
> 
> 
> Piuparts checks many package operations in a chroot, but since in the
> chroot there are no running services service uprades and similar parts
> of the mainitainer scripts are not tested.
> 
> We already have autopktests using lxc/VM backends thus simple
> installation tests of services can be implemented easily, but for
> service upgrade tests piuparts seems to be the best place where they
> could be added.
> 
> The added backends would also excersice the parts of maintainer
> scripts where a running init system is assumed.

This looks like a really good idea!

I run autopkgtest on a QEMU virtual machine testbed with:

  $ autopkgtest $OTHER_OPTIONS \
    -- qemu --boot=efi --overlay-dir /dev/shm \
       unstable-autopkgtest-amd64.img

It would be really great, if I could also use the same QEMU virtual
machine image to run piuparts!

Please, pretty please, implement this new feature in piuparts!


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