Re: automatic testing of dist-upgrades (was: Re: Ideas for additional large scale tests)
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:23:13PM +0100, François Déchelle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm in the edos project, and there are I think 2 set of tools which can
> be usefull:
> - dependencies management tools, probably anla, but I don't know the
> dependencies management tools enough in depth to give you a usefull
> answer. I have forwarded your mail to the people in charge of these tools
> - testing tools, namely TULIP, which is a distribution upgrade testing tools
>
> TULIP uses qemu to run automatic upgrades on 'virtual' installations;
> this way, you can test the dist-upgrade of several environments. The
> cons is that it is quite slow.
>
> There is more information about TULIP on:
> http://www.edos-project.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/TULIP_tool
good pointer, thanks! Lucas might be interested in running this, either with
qemu or xen.
>
> I think we have already an experimental TULIP installation working on
> Debian dist-upgrades.
do you know if that is running stable->testing upgrade path?
filippo
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