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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 Freitag, 17. Januar 2014, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Indeed. Early on in my original development of piuparts I realised
> that testing, in a chroot, code that starts arbitrary daemons is a bad
> idea in oh so many ways. I haven't followed piuparts development in
> recent years, so I don't know if it still uses chroot, but unless it's
> started using containers or virtual machines, it should continue to
> NOT allow init.d scripts to run. At all.

while piuparts now indeed supports other virtualisation methods, no support 
for dealing with starting, stopping & evaluating(!) daemons has been added 
yet. I wrote "patches welcome" already :)


cheers,
	Holger

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