Re: piuparts output format: a proposal

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>]

pe, 2009-07-24 kello 10:44 -0500, Manoj Srivastava kirjoitti:
> On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> 
> 
> > * Failed tests may _optionally_ also write dumps of the virtual
> >   environment (chroot, eventually maybe kvm images) so things may
> >   be debugged.
> 
>         This is somewhat off topic, but is there a way to run piuparts
>  in a kvm instance? I already run my builds in a minimal virtual
>  machine, so it is OK for piuparts to install/remove/purge the package
>  in question. It would be nice to be able to tell piuparts not to bother
>  creating it's own chroot, but to assume it is running already in the
>  minimal test env.

piuparts runs outside the virtual environment, so re-using an existing
kvm instance is not really an option. However, KVM support does need to
happen some day.

> > How does this sound? It is important that those who might use piuparts
> > be able to understand the output.
> 
>         It would be nice, if, like lintian, one could pass in a -v
>  switch to get multi-line explanations/details to aid in understanding
>  the output. The added bits may be static.

Sure, that's a good idea.