Setup a piuparts script to run automated packaging QA tests

[Free Ekanayaka]

As part of our SRU QA procedure we want to make sure that
landscape-client packages can be installed, upgraded, removed and purged
cleanly.

Running piuparts against the candidate packages can automatically catch
problems in any of the operations above. We need a wrapper script to run
piuparts against a bzr branch and plug it into buildbot as a build step.

 affects landscape-client
 status inprogress
 importance medium
 assignee free.ekanayaka
 milestone 1.4.3

[Free Ekanayaka (free.ekanayaka)]

The attached branch implements a new dev/run-piuparts script which takes care of building the packages from the current branch, and run piuparts against them.

Note that to test this for real you'll need the latest pbuilder and piuparts packages from Karmic, earlier versions might not work, so backports would be needed. If so, please let me know if you need help with that.

[Thomas Herve (therve)]

[1] Apparently reloading dbus in the chroot crashes X. Using "pidof X" and aborting may be a solution.

[2] It may be nice to check the version of piuparts, too, as apparently only the lucid version works.

+1!

[Free Ekanayaka (free.ekanayaka)]

Thanks Thomas, [1] and [2] fixed!

[Kevin McDermott (bigkevmcd)]

#1

+The script checks if packaging changes (i.e. modifications debian/ files) have

s/modifications debian/modifications to debian/

#2

+# Workaround a bug in policykit not puring correctly

What does "not puring correctly" mean?

I can't test it, so if it works for you ;-) +1 with the above fixes.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

So, it worked, but there were so many errors displayed during the whole process that it's difficult to say with confidence that everything was tested and is ok.

The end at least says this:
4m17.5s INFO: PASS: All tests.
4m17.5s INFO: piuparts run ends.