Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running piuparts, my package installation, upgrading, and removal tester, against etch. It takes a while, and produces a fairly large number of error logs that need to be investigated manually. This sometimes reveals a bug in piuparts, and sometimes

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Lars Wirzenius] The way I'm running it now, it installs and purges each package (plus dependencies), and then compares the state of the filesystem (the chroot) before and after and reports files that have been modified, removed, or created. Can you do upgrade testing as well. It would be

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Is this acceptable to everyone? Suggestions on how to do this better? This would be real great QA work, would you mind to also send a final or intermediate report with the most common errors you encountered. In my experience somebody who audits a

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-22 Thread Tore Anderson
* Petter Reinholdtsen Can you do upgrade testing as well. It would be great to know what packages fail to upgrade properly from woody to sarge, and from sarge to etch. Indeed. And if you can, Lars, please include a test to see which packages which modify their own conffiles so the user

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-22 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2005-07-22 kello 09:38 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen kirjoitti: [Lars Wirzenius] The way I'm running it now, it installs and purges each package (plus dependencies), and then compares the state of the filesystem (the chroot) before and after and reports files that have been modified,

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-22 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Lars Wirzenius wrote: The way I'm running it now, it installs and purges each package (plus dependencies), and then compares the state of the filesystem (the chroot) before and after and reports files that have been modified, removed, or created. Quite simplistic, really, but good enough to

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-22 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2005-07-22 kello 13:19 +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer kirjoitti: Lars Wirzenius wrote: The way I'm running it now, it installs and purges each package (plus dependencies), and then compares the state of the filesystem (the chroot) before and after and reports files that have been

Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I'm running piuparts, my package installation, upgrading, and removal tester, against etch. It takes a while, and produces a fairly large number of error logs that need to be investigated manually. This sometimes reveals a bug in piuparts, and sometimes in the package, or a depency of the package.

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:41:10PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I'm running piuparts, my package installation, upgrading, and removal tester, against etch. It takes a while, and produces a fairly large number of error logs that need to be investigated manually. This sometimes reveals a bug in

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread John Hasler
Lars Wirzenius writes: Is this acceptable to everyone? It's fine with me. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:41:10PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Is this acceptable to everyone? Suggestions on how to do this better? Any possibility of producing a nice web report on a per package basis? It could be useful to re-run periodically and your tester could probably have the same

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread John Hasler
Francesco P. Lovergine writes: Any possibility of producing a nice web report on a per package basis? ... Filling BTS reports could be not so appropriate. I'd prefer bug reports. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 21 July 2005 14.41, Lars Wirzenius wrote: [piuparts] Go ahead - if you, as you say, investigate the bugs manually, it doesn't matter how you discovered the bug. Just curious: what kind of bugs can piuparts help discover? cheers -- vbi -- The jig's up, Elman.

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2005-07-21 kello 16:44 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine kirjoitti: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:41:10PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Is this acceptable to everyone? Suggestions on how to do this better? Any possibility of producing a nice web report on a per package basis? It could be

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2005-07-21 kello 21:11 +0200, Adrian von Bidder kirjoitti: On Thursday 21 July 2005 14.41, Lars Wirzenius wrote: [piuparts] Go ahead - if you, as you say, investigate the bugs manually, it doesn't matter how you discovered the bug. Just curious: what kind of bugs can piuparts help

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:41:10PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Is this acceptable to everyone? Suggestions on how to do this better? Hi Lars, by all means, proceed! Who say FLOSS lacks 'innovation'! Debian devs seem to comeup with good ideas all the time! Also, have you determined if any