Dear Andreas and Diane and all, thank you for your help!! I'll keep you posted about the results - hopefully successful ones :)
Thank you again so much! On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Diane Trout <di...@ghic.org> wrote: > > I have one question : all the examples in the part of the tutorial for > setting up the development environment (i.e sudo apt-get install rerun > ruby-foreman apt-cacher-ng > | > moreutils lighttpd rabbitmq-server) are relative to the specific package > of 'rubby'? So when i want to set up the environment for running test in > another package i will have to change these commands accordingly? > > > I suspect apt-cacher-ng is in there as a performance enhancement. > > apt-cacher-ng can help speed frequent rebuilding of packages because it > can download and store locally packages. > > When you're first starting to test build an application you'd do: > > apt source <package name> > apt build-dep <package name> > cd <package directory> > dpkg-buildpackage > > (with the stretch release they added apt as an improvement to apt-get) > > Debian maintianers will usually build packages in a temporary environment > using tools like pbuilder or sbuild. Those tools automate extracting the > package, installing the dependencies, building, and running tests. It's > just a bit of work to get them setup. > > And it looks like autopkgtest expects to be running in a temporary build > environment so it can install things and change the system configuration. > > Hope that helps > Diane >
