Re: automatic testing of dist-upgrades (was: Re: Ideas for additional large scale tests)

[François Déchelle <fdechelle@mandriva.com>]

Hello,

Sorry for the delay...

Filippo Giunchedi a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> > 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?

Not that I know, but TULIP is highly configurable, and adding a 
stable->testing upgrade should not be that complicated. I did it for 
Mandriva and it works.

François