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Bug#727708: piuparts sadly does not test init scripts^w^wdaemon starting (Re: Bug#727708: Bits from linux.conf.au)



Hi,

On Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2014, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > it's not realistic for a porter to continously test startup
> > scripts for thousands of packages.
> It's reasonable to semi-continuously test installation scripts for
> thousands of packages -- that's what piuparts does, and we have
> sponsored cloud resources to support that. It seems like that would be
> fairly straightforward to duplicate for testing packages with
> alternative init systems.

piuparts has /sbin/policy.rc.d in place with the content of "exit 0", IOW, it 
does not execute init scripts at all. Running, monitoring and killing 
arbitrary daemons is not trivial.

Help and patches welcome! :-)


cheers,
	Holger


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