ppa smoketests

[Martin Pool]

2009/9/22 James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net>:
> On Tue Sep 22 07:58:26 +0100 2009 Martin Pool wrote:
>> I started writing a script in https://edge.launchpad.net/ppa-smoketest
>> that will help us check whether everything packaged in the PPA is
>> self-consistent and working.
>
> Hi,
>
> I recommend you check out “chdist” in the devscripts package. It will save
> you all the effort of creating chroots.

Thanks for the pointer, that looks very handy and much faster than
running real chroots.

I was going to set them up using debootstrap and schroot so it's not
too manual, but it is still a bit of work.

I was planning to eventually see if the PPA packages actually pass
their selftests, which probably can't be done with chdist and will
need a real chroot.  We can for instance have failures where the
plugin dependencies are different to what's declared in the deb.  But
chdist looks pretty handy for a quick check.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>