Hi Alexandre, * Alexandre Rossi <[email protected]> [2025-10-09 17:36]:
While trying to add an extra repo needed by my autopkgtest run, and after understanding that --extra-repository only applies to the build step, I started trying to use --autopkgtest-opts.$ --autopkgtest-opts=--add-apt-source='deb http://deb.example.net/ experimental main' [...] autopkgtest ----------- autopkgtest [16:59:30]: starting date and time: 2025-10-09 16:59:30+0200 autopkgtest [16:59:30]: version 5.51 autopkgtest [16:59:30]: host skade; command line: /usr/bin/autopkgtest /tmp/lazygal_0.11-2_amd64.changes -- unshare --release unstable --arch amd64 --add-apt-source=deb http://deb.example.net/ experimental main usage: autopkgtest-virt-unshare [-h] [-a ARCH] [-b OUTSIDE INSIDE] [-d] [--bootstrapcmd BOOTSTRAPCMD] [-p PREFIX] [-r RELEASE] [-t TARBALL] [-u UNPACK_DIR] autopkgtest-virt-unshare: error: unrecognized arguments: --add-apt-source=deb http://deb.example.net/ experimental main It seems that unshare makes AUTOPKGTEST_OPTIONS initialized with "-- unshare..." and that --autopkgtest-opts gets appended after which make the command line fail. The badly generated command line is: /usr/bin/autopkgtest /tmp/lazygal_0.11-2_amd64.changes -- unshare --release unstable --arch amd64 --add-apt-source='deb http://deb.example.net/ experimental main' instead of: /usr/bin/autopkgtest --add-apt-source='deb http://deb.example.net/ experimental main' /tmp/lazygal_0.11-2_amd64.changes -- unshare --release unstable --arch amd64
You can work around this by setting $autopkgtest_opts in your sbuild.conf. Or setting it to an empty value.
Long term I see different ways to fix this and I am not sure which one would be best:
a) https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests/515 proposes an automatic mode so we could eventually drop the `-- unshare` injection.
b) We could make --autopkgtest-opt[s] drop the `-- unshare` injection so one could freely add autopkgtest options on the command line. Not sure though if it should happen always or only when the user does not have a $autopkgtest_opts set.
c) We could add --autopkgtest-opt[s] at the beginning of the final AUTOPKGTEST_OPTIONS or before the --.
d) We could split --autopkgtest-opt[s] into a multiple options to inject before and after the --.
e) Document the $autopkgtest_opts = []; workaround. Cheers Jochen
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