'apt-get update' should be configurable as part of testbed setup

[Richard Huddie]

It would be useful to add a flag to automatically allow 'apt-get update' to be run during testbed setup.

Currently this can be done using --setup-commands option:
'mount -o remount,rw /; apt-get update; mount -o remount,ro /'

But it would be much easier to have a flag to allow this to be configured as part of the setup procedure.

This step is required to ensure device package lists don't became out of sync with archive.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I added a convenience script: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git/commit/?id=a51f26f61c376

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Thanks Martin!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopkgtest - 3.9.4

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autopkgtest (3.9.4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Recognize modern "Package-Type:" control field in addition to
    XC-Package-Type.
  * ssh-setup/adb: Guard adb wait-for-device with a 5 min timeout.
    (LP: #1414939)
  * README.running-tests.rst: Fix mis-spelled ro-apt setup command.
  * Add setup-commands/ro-apt-update: Shortcut for temporarily mounting a
    readonly root file system writable and run apt-get. This allows tests to
    download/unpack test dependencies on older images whose apt indexes are
    out of date. (LP: #1408350)
  * Export temp dir install mode variables in the test run script instead of
    merely running it under that environment, so that we trump non-extending
    LD_LIBRARY_PATHs in /etc/environment. (LP: #1407949)
  * setup-commands/ubuntu-touch-session: Ensure that /dev/uinput is always
    accessible, as we don't necessarily have local logind sessions during
    tests. (part of LP #1415514)
  * setup-commands/ubuntu-touch-session: Unset UPSTART_JOB (which crept into
    the environment from a recent upstart version) when calling initctl, to
    fix querying the session D-BUS address. (LP: #1415514)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:01:41 +0100