Re: [Outreachy] Hi all!
I have one question : all the examples in the part of the tutorial for setting up the development environment (i.e sudo apt-get install rerun ruby-foreman apt-cacher-ng |
moreutils lighttpd rabbitmq-server) are relative to the specific package of 'rubby'? So when i want to set up the environment for running test in another package i will have to change these commands accordingly?
I suspect apt-cacher-ng is in there as a performance enhancement.
apt-cacher-ng can help speed frequent rebuilding of packages because it can download and store locally packages.
When you're first starting to test build an application you'd do:
apt source <package name>
apt build-dep <package name>
cd <package directory>
dpkg-buildpackage
(with the stretch release they added apt as an improvement to apt-get)
Debian maintianers will usually build packages in a temporary environment using tools like pbuilder or sbuild. Those tools automate extracting the package, installing the dependencies, building, and running tests. It's just a bit of work to get them setup.
And it looks like autopkgtest expects to be running in a temporary build environment so it can install things and change the system configuration.
Hope that helps
Diane
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