Bug#860554: autopkgtest: Running autopkgtest may fail due to long path

[Martin Pitt]

Control: tag -1 pending

Hello Balint,

Balint Reczey [2017-05-04  2:07 +0200]:
> -        create_command = 'dpkg-source -x "%s"' % dsc_tb
> +        create_command = 'dpkg-source -x "%s" src' % dsc_tb

That's a good idea.

> @@ -385,10 +385,10 @@ def build_source(kind, arg, built_binaries):
>                            '  ver=${srcversion:-$pkg_candidate};'
>                            '  dpkg --compare-versions "$ver" lt "$maxver" || maxver="$ver";'
>                            'done;'
> -                          '[ -z "$maxver" ] || maxver="=$maxver";'
> +                          '[ -z "$maxver" ] || maxver="$maxver";'

This is now a no-op.

> -                          'OUT=$(apt-get source -q --only-source %(src)s$maxver 2>&1) || RC=$?;'
> +                          'OUT=$(apt-get source -d -q --only-source %(src)s=$maxver 2>&1) || RC=$?;'

This breaks (or is at least unintuitive) if $maxver is empty.

>                            'if [ -n "$RC" ]; then if echo "$OUT" | grep -q "Unable to find a source package"; then exit 1; else exit $RC; fi; fi;'
> -                          'echo "$OUT" | grep ^Get: || true' % {'src': arg})
> +                          'echo "$OUT" | grep ^Get: ; dpkg-source -x %(src)s_$maxver.dsc src' % {'src': arg})


I now implemented this idea in
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git/commit/?id=762397342b
but without the $maxver changes.

Thanks!

Martin