On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:42:32PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > >Nice! How does it work exactly? How do you write tests? Do you have scenarii > >or something? > > The expect script starts up a user-mode-linux on a pre-built chroot, and > then attempts to install the package in it. If that succeeds, it tries to > purge it. Testing an upgrade/downgrade requires a trivial bit of hacking in > the script. Debconf questions/answers are read from a file, the questions > are watched for in the console output. > > It's horridly inefficient, though---I chose uml over chroot because I wanted > ordinary users to be able to run it.
Thanks. -- Jérôme Marant