Bug#707178: start of a debirf stress-testing extension: stressant

2013-05-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
[adding a cc: to the debirf mailing list [0]] On 05/15/2013 07:38 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: So the guts of this idea are around this ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707178 interesting, thanks. I have started working on a silly debirf rescue image. I basically took

Bug#707178: start of a debirf stress-testing extension: stressant

2013-05-16 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2013-05-16 10:26:13, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: [adding a cc: to the debirf mailing list [0]] On 05/15/2013 07:38 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: I have started working on a silly debirf rescue image. I basically took the rescue image from 0.33 and added this file in rescue/modules/stressant:

Bug#707178: start of a debirf stress-testing extension: stressant

2013-05-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/16/2013 11:08 AM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: i wonder if util-linux is really necessary - since it's of priority 'required', are those installed automatically? util-linux is also Essential: yes, so i think that's superfluous too. That would be great! However, one thing I am looking at

Bug#707178: start of a debirf stress-testing extension: stressant

2013-05-16 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2013-05-16 11:20:32, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 05/16/2013 11:08 AM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: i wonder if util-linux is really necessary - since it's of priority 'required', are those installed automatically? util-linux is also Essential: yes, so i think that's superfluous too. fixed.

Bug#707178: start of a debirf stress-testing extension: stressant

2013-05-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/16/2013 01:34 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: Okay well how about this: I have tons of little tweaks to do to that package, and I prefer to keep it small and local for now. When it is complete and makes sense, we'll merge it in. it's software; it will never be complete :) but i'm fine with

Bug#707178: start of a debirf stress-testing extension: stressant

2013-05-15 Thread Antoine Beaupré
So the guts of this idea are around this ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707178 Our requirement at Koumbit.org is to have a tool that will do a series of tests when we receive or want to verify new hardware. This would ideally be in a debirf image, since those are easily to