Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Frank Lichtenheld and others have brought up the idea of automatically > testing installation, upgrading, and removal of packages. It struck me > that it should be pretty simple to implement at least basic versions of > this. The result: http://liw.iki.fi/liw/download/piuparts-0.4.tar.gz > > I have attached the manual page. > > The current version is quite simplistic. It may well be too simplistic > to work for more than in simple cases, but it's a start. > > I'd be very curious to hear about suggestions for improvements. I want to run a test that installs each package in woody in turn, upgrades them to sarge, then to sid, then purges it, then looks for /usr/doc and /usr/info stuff that is were produced during the package's install or upgrade and not removed. > If the package is known to apt-cache, piuparts also does an upgrade > test, where it first installs the package with apt-get, and then > installs from the package files given on the command line, and finally > removes and purges everything that got installed. The assumption is > that the version apt-get finds is older than the package file. The > upgrade test is not performed if -a is used. I think this can not quite do it, since the chroot will need to be a woody chroot but get at least partially upgraded in each test to allow installation of the sarge and sid packages. It looks like piuparts is otherwise close to the tool I need. -- see shy jo
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