Re: using package tests

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com>]

debci tests are run in a chroot.

But for testing locally (i.e. simply running the tests), you can invoke

  autopkgtest -B -- null

It may give some differences from a chroot run depending on what else 
you've got installed on your system, but it saves the hassle of 
maintaining a chroot.


On 2020-04-18 01:59, Mark Olesen wrote:
> I started looking at package tests and some of tutorial information 
> (eg,
> https://people.debian.org/~mpitt/autopkgtest/README.running-tests.html
> and https://ci.debian.net/doc/file.TUTORIAL.html).
>
> As usual, there is lots of information, but not really sure what is
> the most applicable. These tests, for example,
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/openfoam/-/tree/master/debian%2Ftests
>
>
> Which particular invocation of autopkgtest would be used for these?
> It looks like they are testing on the installed package, or is there a
> chroot hidden somewhere and they actually run with the built
> debian/prefix/package.. hierarchy?
>
> Since the included tests are very similar, I wanted to wrap them in a
> simple "AutoTest" utility in the upstream. However, I'm not sure which
> environment or other conditions are passed in there.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> /mark