On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 07:38 -0300, Lucas Kanashiro wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On 24/10/2022 06:32, Christopher Obbard wrote: > > Hi Lucas & Steve, > > > > On Wed, 25 May 2022 17:25:29 -0300 Lucas Kanashiro > > <kanash...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:21:01 -0700 Steve Langasek > > > <steve.langa...@canonical.com> wrote: > > > > My current suggestion is: > > > > - ask for an additional autopkgtest in Debian that runs with > > > > debos > > > > --disable-fakemachine (instead of replacing the current > > autopkgtest) > > > > - introduce an Ubuntu delta that drops the autopkgtest which > > depends on > > > > fakemachine > > > > - optionally, patch debos in Ubuntu to use --disable- > > > > fakemachine by > > > default? > > > > > > Since we got no reply so far I patched debos to use > > > --disable-fakemachine and adjusted the test dependencies and > > > restrictions in Ubuntu. > > > > > > Hopefully, we'll sort this out in Debian and then we can drop the > > delta > > > added. > > I plan on implementing the following when releasing a new version: > > > > 1) modify the build-chroot autopkgtest to use --disable-fakemachine > > in > > the debos call and remove the additional dependencies (e.g. just > > running on the host, this will need Restrictions: needs-sudo) > > I think you meant "needs-root" restriction here, right?
Well, either works for me, but typically a user who is using debos with --disable-fakemachine will use sudo to elevate privileges rather than running as the root account. This will make the test better reflect reality. Does it make sense to use needs-sudo in this case? > > > 2) add an additional autopkgtest, build-chroot-uml to build a > > chroot > > using the uml backend, but with Restrictions: skip-not-installable > > so > > to not fail if user-mode-linux is not available in downstreams? > > This is a possible solution, it should work fine. > > > Would this be suitable or do you have other suggestions which would > > allow downstreams to test debos without downstream patches :-) > I believe with that we will be able to make is a sync from Debian > again > in Ubuntu. Thanks for working on it. >
