Re: Adding chroot support to the dpkg functional testsuite (was Bug#580984...)

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Subject: Re: Adding chroot support to the dpkg functional testsuite (was Bug#580984...)
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 00:57:00 -0500
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Guillem Jover wrote:

> Another possibility could be to use something like busybox-static, and
> install that in the chroot, then dpkg could be built statically and used
> there, this will most probably be a bit painful for the build system.

Why not install busybox plus any libs needed to run dpkg?  The git test
suite has a script to do something like this at t/t1509/prepare-chroot.sh[1].

Jonathan

[1] http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git/blob/HEAD:/t/t1509/prepare-chroot.sh

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