Bug#743029: autopkgtest: Support access to package repository during testrun

[Thomas Bechtold]

Package: autopkgtest
Version: 2.11
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

I want to write a dep8 test for python-diskimage-builder. The test
should do something like this:

1) Create a qemu image (with: disk-image-create -a amd64 -u -o debian-amd64 vm debian)
2) Boot the image with qemu
3) Try to login with ssh

For the first step, disk-image-create uses debootstrap which needs
access to a Debian mirror but during the tests I can not assume to have
internet access. So I need a mirror which I can use for the tests.

I guess other packages (ie debootstrap, openstack-debian-images)
need this as well to write dep8 tests.

Cheers,

Tom


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on:
ii  apt-utils      0.9.16.1
ii  debhelper      9.20140228
ii  pbuilder       0.215
ii  python         2.7.5-5
ii  python-debian  0.1.21+nmu2

autopkgtest recommends no packages.

Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests:
ii  autopkgtest-xenlvm  2.11
ii  lxc                 0.9.0~alpha3-2+deb8u1
ii  qemu-system         1.7.0+dfsg-5
ii  qemu-utils          1.7.0+dfsg-5
ii  schroot             1.7.2-2

-- no debconf information