Paul Gevers writes ("Re: Multi-host networking software, autopkgtests"):
> I guess this is best discussed in https://bugs.debian.org/908274 (added
> in the To)? Maybe with Wouter and other interested parties?
Hmmm. Well, a way of doing this "officially" in autopkgtest would be
nice. But:
Think such an "official" thing ought to allow the specification of
different dependencies for the different hosts in the test. And I
don't much like the mini-DSL suggestion. Maybe it would be better to
offer the test script an adt virt server interface to control the
"other" hosts.
This all seems very complex. I definitely want to have something
working before something like that could exist. Also, I think it
would be a good idea to do something ad-hoc, ideally in a number of
packages, to gain experience so we know what shape the "official"
thing ought to be.
I think therefore that I need to pursue some kind of within-testbed
nesting, as an interim approach at the very least. I was hoping that
someone else had solved (part of) this problem already...
Ian.
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