On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:20:15 +0200 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: [...] > Quoting Francesco Poli (2023-06-26 20:20:47) > > If I may share my thoughts (daydreams?!?) about this issue, I was hoping to > > see a (relatively) simple command able to create a QEMU/KVM image for > > autopkgtest without requiring superuser privileges. An image that could be > > easily upgraded after creation (without the need to re-create it from > > scratch). Bonus, if the image can then be used also for interactive testing > > of packages and for package building. > > > > Basically, I was hoping to see [sbuild-qemu-create] drop the requirement > > of superuser privileges (thus dropping the behind-the-scenes use of > > vmdb2 and switching to some other backend)... > > > > [sbuild-qemu-create]: <https://anarc.at/blog/2022-04-27-sbuild-qemu/> > > > > I am not sure I clearly understand whether this may happen or whether > > this is actually going to happen soon... > > this is not a daydream and I think we have nearly all building blocks in place > to make all of this happen very soon! [...] > Of course once either MR !236 or !237 get merged [...] > So I don't think it's a daydream. [...] > So stay tuned! :D
Hello! :-) I stayed tuned and I saw that mmdebstrap/1.4.0-1 ships a mmdebstrap-autopkgtest-build-qemu that does not require superuser privileges (according to its man page). Do I understand correctly that this new script is one of the building blocks that can make the above-summarized "daydream" come true? Could you please give me a status update on the "daydream"? Looking forward to hearing back from you. Thanks for all the good stuff! -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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