Bug#979450: booth: autopkgtest fails on ci-worker-ppc64el-01 (but apparently not on other ppc64el workers)

[Valentin Vidic]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 03:52:41PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Grr. I'm now sure they don't. Although we generate new containers every
> day, it seems that the configuration of those containers in
> /var/lib/lxc/* *doesn't* get refreshed. I have just destroyed all
> containers before creating new ones, and now they contain this. So,
> somehow our container recreation is flawed.
> 
> I ran a booth, pdns and pdns-recursor autopkgtest manually on this host,
> and they now pass.
> 
> I've reassigned the bugs to autopkgtest, it needs to be fixed there IMHO.

autopkgtest-build-lxc has an update mode where it only recreates rootfs
for existing containers but not anything else outside of that. The
safest way would probably be to create a container with a new name, run
some tests and if it looks good rename over the previous container.

-- 
Valentin