Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 10:20 -0800, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Not exactly an answer, but an alternative - it's easy to get an ARM VM from > many cloud providers.  For a buck or two, I've avoided hours of futzing with > the porterboxes.  I've heard of providers with PPC, but haven't ever actually >

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-03 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 06:28:50PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > When I want to fix autopkgtests for a package on a particular architecture, I > currently > see no way to run autopkgtests before I dput since porter boxes do not > provide root > access which autopkgtest needs. Not exactly an

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 at 22:52:26 +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > If I want to run tests with another package (say a test dependency) that I > fixed > locally on a particular arch (which is not amd64) -- how doI run autopkgtests > with > this combo on a porter machine? Unfortunately, the general

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-03 Thread Nilesh Patra
On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 06:09:47PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 01-03-2024 1:58 p.m., Nilesh Patra wrote: > > Have you found any way around these? > > https://salsa.debian.org/mbanck/dd-autopkgtest/ Thanks, I will use this for autopkgtests. This however also only partially solves the issue

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 01-03-2024 1:58 p.m., Nilesh Patra wrote: Have you found any way around these? https://salsa.debian.org/mbanck/dd-autopkgtest/ Alternative, probably not the best solution, but until better ones are found (and as long it's not too much used): Antonio and I offer DD's access to

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-02 Thread Yadd
On 3/1/24 18:08, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 07:15:16PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: You can use local sbuild chroots for foreign architectures, both for building and, I assume, running autopkgtests. I know but that is not something I want. This invaidates the whole point

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-01 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting David Bremner (2024-03-01 14:09:36) > Nilesh Patra writes: > > When I want to fix autopkgtests for a package on a particular architecture, > > I currently see no way to run autopkgtests before I dput since porter boxes > > do not provide root access which autopkgtest needs. > > > >

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-01 Thread Jérôme Charaoui
Le 2024-03-01 à 08 h 09, David Bremner a écrit : Nilesh Patra writes: When I want to fix autopkgtests for a package on a particular architecture, I currently see no way to run autopkgtests before I dput since porter boxes do not provide root access which autopkgtest needs. Currently I am

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-01 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 07:15:16PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > > You can use local sbuild chroots for foreign architectures, both for > > building and, I assume, running autopkgtests. > > I know but that is not something I want. This invaidates the whole point of > using > porter machines. I

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-01 Thread Nilesh Patra
On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 06:03:16PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > You can use local sbuild chroots for foreign architectures, both for > building and, I assume, running autopkgtests. I know but that is not something I want. This invaidates the whole point of using porter machines. Best,

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-01 Thread David Bremner
Nilesh Patra writes: > When I want to fix autopkgtests for a package on a particular architecture, I > currently > see no way to run autopkgtests before I dput since porter boxes do not > provide root > access which autopkgtest needs. > > Currently I am manually hacking around the test scripts

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-01 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 06:28:50PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > Hi, > > When I want to fix autopkgtests for a package on a particular architecture, I > currently > see no way to run autopkgtests before I dput since porter boxes do not > provide root > access which autopkgtest needs. > >

Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-01 Thread Nilesh Patra
Hi, When I want to fix autopkgtests for a package on a particular architecture, I currently see no way to run autopkgtests before I dput since porter boxes do not provide root access which autopkgtest needs. Currently I am manually hacking around the test scripts and running the autopkgtests