[Bug 1175557] Re: adt-run fulfills dependencies with --built-tree contrary to the manpage

[Ian Jackson]

Martin Pitt writes ("[Bug 1175557] Re: adt-run fulfills dependencies with --built-tree contrary to the manpage"):
> I'm trying to understand how these arguments actually work, keeping my
> notes here. Probably not interesting to anyone else, but maybe for me
> for future reference.

Do you want me to try to explain how I think they're supposed to
work ?

Ian.

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Title:
  adt-run fulfills dependencies with --built-tree contrary to the
  manpage

Status in “autopkgtest” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  adt-run(1) says:

         --built-tree directory
                Specifies that tests from the built source tree directory should
                be run.  Note that the packages that would normally be installed
                as a result of @ in the tests' Depends field (which includes the
                case  where  the  Depends  field  is  not  specified)  are   not
                installed.   The  caller  must  explicitly  instruct  adt-run to
                install any relevant packages.

  On the other hand, when I run:

      adt-run --built-tree facter-1.6.10 --- adt-virt-schroot saucy-
  amd64

  then it fulfils the facter test dependency from the archive. I
  expected it not to fulfil the dependency and thus for my test to fail.

  This is a problem for me because I am trying to test my new dep8 test
  for facter to prevent a recurrence of bug 1173265. In order to test my
  test, I'm trying to run my new test against a locally rebuilt deb of
  facter 1.6.9-2ubuntu1 to verify that it correctly detects the failure
  case. So I ran:

      adt-run --binaries-fortests=install --binary
  facter_1.6.9-2ubuntu1_all.deb --built-tree facter-1.6.10 --- adt-virt-
  schroot saucy-amd64

  (facter_1.6.9-2ubuntu1_all.deb is my locally rebuilt version, and
  factor-1.6.10 is a directory that contains my newest yet-to-upload
  merge of facter that includes a new smoke test)

  I expected this to fulfill the facter dependency in my test from the
  deb, rather than from the archive. But adt-run appeared to ignore this
  and fulfill it from the archive instead, causing the test run to pass,
  instead of running it from my local .deb and causing the test to fail.

  I'm not sure if I'm calling adt-run correctly here, but I am confused
  by the documentation. So I reduced the problem and found behaviour
  that directly contracts the manpage, as above.

  This bug is for the first case, where --built-tree fulfils
  dependencies in direct contradiction of the documentation.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: autopkgtest 2.2.3ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu May  2 11:04:13 2013
  Ec2AMI: ami-000002a8
  Ec2AMIManifest: FIXME
  Ec2AvailabilityZone: nova
  Ec2InstanceType: m1.small
  Ec2Kernel: unavailable
  Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen
   LC_COLLATE=C
   PATH=(custom, no user)
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  SourcePackage: autopkgtest
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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