Apt indexes can expire quickly, cause failures

[Nicholas Skaggs]

autopkgtest depends on apt indexes on the target being up to date. This can cause failures when the indexes change, especially when tracking a development release with frequent updates.

At the least, I would request a small note when this error occurs that would inform the user to update the apt indexes on the target, then try running adt-run again.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

You'll see fairly clearly when the apt indexes are out of date and apt fails to download package versions which don't exist any more. adt-run could detect this in r/o mode and re-download into a temporary dir instead.

Until then you can use the -w option of ssh-setup/adb, and --setup-commands "apt-get update".

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopkgtest - 3.3.1

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autopkgtest (3.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Accept comma separators in Tests:, Restrictions:, and Features: fields;
    this is consistent with Depends: and avoids skipping tests. (LP: #1347958)
  * Generalize implementation of getting an interactive shell in testbeds.
    Most runners now don't need to provide a hook_shell() any more.
  * Export install environment to interactive testbed shells, so that
    unpacked test depends in the temp dir are accessible. (LP: #1339103)
  * lxc: Don't fail on a nonexisting /etc/environment or /etc/default/locale.
    (LP: #1348749)
  * adb ssh script: Add --apt-update option to run "apt-get update" (with
    temporarily switching to r/w), to run tests on older development images.
    (LP: #1342838)
  * Drop the very short and unnecessary install timeouts from the NullRunner
    tests.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:45:36 +0200