[Pkg-puppet-devel] autopkgtest issues in Ubuntu

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos]

Hi Nish,

On 14:15 Wed 22 Feb     , Nish Aravamudan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While by no means are you obligated to help me here, I'm hoping to get
> some guidance!
> 
> It seems like some excellent autopkgtests have been recently
> added/updated to puppet. Unfortunately, they fail on Ubuntu 17.04 (e.g.,
> https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-zesty/zesty/amd64/p/puppet/20170218_013744_0e945@/log.gz).
> Initially they failed because Ubuntu does not ship a sysvinit-core
> binary package. Skipping those tests on Ubuntu, though, I still see
> failures.
> 
> It seems like the following is true:
> 
> 1) There is an assumption that the puppet server is accessible at a
> hostname of 'pupppet' in

You seem to have a runaway 'p' here, but I checked the source and it's 
'puppet' as intended.

> d/t/spec/puppet-master-passenger/zz_puppet3_compat_spec.rb.
> Unfortunately, a https_proxy is used in the Ubuntu autopkgtest and since
> the test-runner is not named puppet (nor is it an alias for localhost),
> the proxy intercepts the request and rejects it.

'puppet' is added as a localhost alias via the following line in 
puppet-master-passenger/use_spec.rb:

describe command('puppet resource host puppet ip=127.0.81.40') do
  its(:exit_status) { should eq 0 }
end

> 
> My initial thought here is that the actual hostname should be used,
> e.g.:

No, the tests are run like this on purpose (and `puppet agent --server 
puppet` works correctly).

If I understand correctly, you (as in Ubuntu) export https_proxy 
globally in the autopkgtest environment and it's curl that picks it up.  
The trick here, since we know we'll be talking with localhost anyway, is 
to have curl opt out of using the proxy, either by unsetting the 
environment variables, or by using the '--noproxy puppet' option. The 
latter is something we can also include in future Debian packages if it 
helps. Can you give it a try?

Regards,
Apollon