Package: piuparts
Severity: wishlist
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Piuparts-devel] testing packages that need a database
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 12:47:48 +0100
From: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Hi Andreas,
On Donnerstag, 1. März 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> I think we should add an option --allow-database that modifies
> policy-rc.d so that it allows mysql and postgresql demons to be started.
> It's probably more helpful to test packages needing a database with a db
> available than to check their behavior in a chroot w/o db.
> And we may find more things a package needs to cleanup afterwards.
right.
(sounds like a very sensible approach to me.)
> --allow-database should not be enabled by default (as it may conflict
> with demons already running on the host (is there anything like this on
> piatti?)
no. currently piuparts is the only thing run on piatti. (this used to be
different in the past. I dont think it will change in future though. but
still, there might be slaves where this will be the case..)
> There may be conflicts with the checks for running processes ...
not if the database is removed before :)
cheers,
Holger
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