Michael Hudson wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:09 +0000, Bjorn Tillenius wrote: >> >> >>>> It's not tragic, because I can use a VNC server instead, but it worries >>>> me that our test suite and xvfb-run can so easily stop working together. >>> s/xvfb-run/any external dependency/. We have a lot of problems with the >>> test suite stop working between Ubuntu releases. >> Can I suggest a test job in buildbot that just reports on the status in >> the development Ubuntu version. Forewarned == four armed, etc. > > It's not buildbot, but it's fairly easy to run the tests on EC2 against > a newer version of Ubuntu, you just run "./utilites/ec2 test -m > based-on:$ami" where $ami is a blank ami of the desired distro series > that lets you log in as root with the key pair you provide when you > launch the instance... > > ... which is actually a slight problem, as both the official AMIs and > the recent ones produced by Eric Hammond let you log in as 'ubuntu', a > user with passwordless sudo with the keys you provide on instance > launch. But it shouldn't be hard to fix the code to match this.
bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mwhudson/launchpad/ec-log-in-as-ubuntu does this. I'm running a test on a Karmic image now. Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
