Hi Helmut and others. Some time ago we had a conversation on debian-devel about how to make autopkgtests that spawn multiple nodes and communicate between them, eg for testing network protocols[1].
To summarise that discussion: at that time the best available solution that worked in ci.d.n seemed to be to write an ad-hoc script to run the tests in qemu; three packes had done that, each separately, with complex scripts with many moving parts. I saw debvm, and wondered if it was suitable for this purpose. But, then I looked at its debian/test/control and I see that the tests are marked as flaky.[2] So maybe it isn't reliable enough :-/. I have other questions too, particularly to do with the way I would need autopkgtest to be able to influence package selection in the nested testbeds. Everyone else: has there been any other progress on the multi-node autopkgtest problem ? Thanks, Ian. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/01/msg00059.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908274 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/debvm/-/blob/main/debian/tests/control -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
