> I have one question : all the examples in the part of the tutorial > for setting up the development environment (i.e sudo apt-get install > rerun ruby-foreman apt-cacher-ng | > moreutils lighttpd rabbitmq-server) are relative to the specific > package of 'rubby'? So when i want to set up the environment for > running test in another package i will have to change these > commands accordingly?
I suspect apt-cacher-ng is in there as a performance enhancement. apt-cacher-ng can help speed frequent rebuilding of packages because it can download and store locally packages. When you're first starting to test build an application you'd do: apt source <package name> apt build-dep <package name> cd <package directory> dpkg-buildpackage (with the stretch release they added apt as an improvement to apt-get) Debian maintianers will usually build packages in a temporary environment using tools like pbuilder or sbuild. Those tools automate extracting the package, installing the dependencies, building, and running tests. It's just a bit of work to get them setup. And it looks like autopkgtest expects to be running in a temporary build environment so it can install things and change the system configuration. Hope that helps Diane
