Jakub Wilk [2014-03-18 11:37 +0100]: > What I've been doing to my packages, is to copy all the bits > necessary to run tests from the package directory to $ADTTMP, then > chdir to $ADTTMP, and run tests from there. This greatly mitigates > the risk of accidentally testing against not-installed code.
That's a nice approach indeed. > > But the alternative of building the required bits inside the tests > itself is not appealing either, because to do that you would > typically need to add stuff to Depends. > > It would be great if there was a way to tell the test runner to run > a dedicated debian/rules target (say, "debian/rules adt-prepare"), > instead of doing full-blown build. It's not too complicated to do that with the current specs: add @builddeps@ to debian/tests/control's Depends: and just call "debian/rules build-tests" (or whichever target you have) in debian/tests/mytest. autopkgtest calls dpkg-buildpackage to do the actual package build, so for adding this to autopkgtest explicitly, we could add a flag for that and call dpkg-buildpackage --target. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
