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Re: autopkgtest for security archive



Dear wanna-build-team,

Kind ping for the question below.

Paul

On 19-02-2019 21:56, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Dear wanna-build-team,
> 
> On 21-10-2018 20:17, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 10:07:25PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
>>> Although we are not finished yet (are we ever?) with the work on
>>> implementing autopkgtest for unstable-to-testing migration, I think now
>>> is as good a time as ever to start discussing autopkgtest for the
>>> security archive. I have some questions and some ideas. I'll dump them
>>> below and let's discuss.
>>
>> Fantastic news!
>>
>>> 1) ci.d.n would need to get access to the build packages, ideally in the
>>> form of an archive. From earlier discussions it wasn't totally clear if
>>> that archive exists. buildds run from an existing queue, is that an
>>> proper archive? Does that embargoed queue/archive also contain the
>>> already build packages? (I can imagine that to build a package for the
>>> embargoed archive it needs other packages from the embargoed archive as
>>> well). So, if there exists an archive with build packages, we need to
>>> agree on how to get access. How do the buildds have access now? If such
>>> an archive doesn't exist, what do the buildds use exactly?
>>
>> Yes, the security buildds are using un-released packages from the
>> security queue (we e.g. used this to build Firefox 60 with Rust packages
>> in the security archive). I don't have the details on the specific
>> apt source and how it's accessed, but the Debian buildd team (or DSA?)
>> should know.
> 
> Can you maybe enlighten us on the points raised above?
> 
> Paul
> 

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