On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 09:53:32AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > (you didn't respond to the bug any more, was that intended?) Nope, looks like I just hit the wrong button replying to your email. Forwarded now.
> Jelmer Vernooij [2014-05-25 5:42 +0200]: > > adt-run indeed has a confusing command-line and is not very well > > documented (though I see the package now has a couple of .txt files > > that weren't there when I last looked). > Yeah, I tried to simplify it as much as possible without breaking > backwards compat, and wrote README.running-tests which should > hopefully explain sufficiently how to build test beds and run tests > with various scenarios. I'll file some bugs for things I think would help. > > I tried setting up the lxc backend a couple of times, but ran into > > issues each time and gave up on it. > > Indeed up to a week or so ago I wasn't aware that Debian's LXC > packages don't set up networking. That's indeed really inconvenient, > not just for autopkgtest but for using containers in general. This is > https://bugs.debian.org/747914, I hope that the maintainer considers > taking the network setup scripts from upstream/the Ubuntu package to > make them much more pleasant to use. Thanks for the link. I also hit a couple of other issues on my earlier attempts - http://bugs.debian.org/745415 and http://bugs.debian.org/740437. Ironically it seems like adt-build-lxc could do with some tests to make sure it is compatible with the lxc in the archive. ;-) Would it be possible to not install the lxc virt server for the moment, or indicate that it is broken until lxc gets fixed ? At the moment it is a timesink for anybody that attempts to use it. > > It would be great if it was possible to use a cowbuilder/pbuilder chroot. I > > already have those set up and am not too keen on having yet another > > set of chroots to maintain. > > So far nobody has asked for a pbuilder backend (it seems most people I > know have abandoned it for the much nicer sbuild/schroot long ago). If > that's still popular I could look into that; it should be fairly > similar to the schroot/chroot runners. Please feel free to file a bug > against autopkgtest as a reminder. Perhaps I should just have a look at sbuild to see what the fuss is about. I can certainly adapt - quality in virt servers is better than quantity IMHO, as I have noticed with lxc. :) Cheers, Jelmer -- Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@debian.org> Debian Developer http://samba.org/~jelmer/
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