autopkgtest + chroot howto ? - Was: Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

I haven't been able to find a comprehensive set of instructions on how
to get started with autopkgtest, and I imagined that chroot would be an
interesting option.

I quite don't see the interest of the adt-virt-null, as I suppose that a
clean test bed is generally required when testing... :-/

Has anyone spotted a howto document for autopkgtest + adt-virt-chroot ?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org> writes:

> Le Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 01:24:43PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
>> 
>> adt-run needs a virtual machine.  I know that some developers have
>> some workarounds, but couldn't autopkgtest also support running tests on the local
>> system ?  This would be tremendously useful when the tests can be contained in
>> the binary packages, as it would make it very easy for our users and ourselves
>> to test the packages.
>
> Thanks to Michael's hint, I found that the following command will work locally.
>
> sudo adt-run --no-built-binaries foo.dsc --- adt-virt-null
>
> (See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00501.html )
>

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