Bug#901030: some context

2018-06-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Antonio Terceiro writes ("Bug#901030: some context"): > the problem here is that by definition, some types of testbed don't > allow you to test some packages. Right, but in principle these testbeds could. All that is needed is to install binfmt-misc in the host. I am sugges

Bug#901030: some context

2018-06-12 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 02:34:57PM +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > I agree that there can't be a Restriction for every config under the > sun. I'm thinking more like Ian, where there can be some useful chunks > with a finer grain than "needs isolation". Allowing a test definition to cau

Bug#901030: some context

2018-06-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Hans-Christoph Steiner writes ("Bug#901030: some context"): > I agree that there can't be a Restriction for every config under the > sun. I'm thinking more like Ian, where there can be some useful chunks > with a finer grain than "needs isolation". >

Bug#901030: some context

2018-06-12 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I agree that there can't be a Restriction for every config under the sun. I'm thinking more like Ian, where there can be some useful chunks with a finer grain than "needs isolation". I think that autopkgtest will never work well for a lot of packages with such a inflexible system for specifying

Bug#901030: some context

2018-06-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Antonio Terceiro writes ("Bug#901030: some context"): > Control: severity -1 wishlist > Control: tag -1 + wontfix .. > By the same argument we would need one restriction for every > kernel-related feature out there. Implementing every type of special > snow flake config

Bug#901030: some context

2018-06-08 Thread Antonio Terceiro
Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tag -1 + wontfix On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 12:35:13PM +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > This issue was discovered while working on getting autopkgtest running > smoothly in Docker containers running in Gitlab CI on salsa.debian.org: > https://salsa.debi

Bug#901030: some context

2018-06-08 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
This issue was discovered while working on getting autopkgtest running smoothly in Docker containers running in Gitlab CI on salsa.debian.org: https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/issues/27 When running autopkgtest in a gitlab-ci docker container, it can run directly in it since it has root ac