Re: Access to Debian Test Farm for s390 Testing
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
> On 2015-09-16 06:47, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I work with a free/open source project. We have a failure report from
>> a Debian package maintainer on an s390.
>>
>
> Hi Jeffrey,
>
> Thanks for your interest. :)
>
> I am directing you over to debian-mentors, since your enquiry is
> probably better fitted there (debian-testing is intended for upgrade
> reports etc.)
>
>> I have a lot of systems available to me for testing (including GCC's
>> test farm), but none of them provide an s390 environment. I tried to
>> add QEMU's qemu-system-s390x, but ran into Debian Bug 799120
>> (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799120).
>>
>> I'm guessing Debian has the test platform because a maintainer tested
>> under it (he told me it was not QEMU based). But searching results in
>> spurious noise (https://www.google.com/search?q=debian+test+farm), and
>> nothing specific to Debian.
>>
>> I have three related questions:
>>
>> (1) Where is the Debian test farm?
>
>
>
> I suspect you are looking for our s390x porterbox[1]. :)
>
>
>> (2) Does Debian provide access to non-Debian maintainers?
>> (3) How can I acquire [possibly partial] access to it for s390 testing?
>>
>> If needed for (2), I'm willing to sign-up to be a Debain maintainer
>> for the project which I have subject matter expertise.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> We have guest accounts[2] which might be what you are looking for. :)
> If you get a guest account, you can use it to get a "chroot" for
> building as described at [3].
>
> As suggested in the beginning, if you have any further questions, please
> follow up to debian-mentors. :)
>
Thanks Neils.
I owe you a cold beer if you ever make it to my side of town (the east
coast of the US).
Jeff
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