On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 06:28:50PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > Hi, > > When I want to fix autopkgtests for a package on a particular architecture, I currently > see no way to run autopkgtests before I dput since porter boxes do not provide root > access which autopkgtest needs. > > Currently I am manually hacking around the test scripts and running the autopkgtests but > this does not emulate the autopkgtest environment well enough. It also does not work > well for daemon-like packages for instance. > > Additionally, say, I have a package which FTBFS due to something broken in a build dependency > on a particular architecture. > If I fixup the problem in the build-dependency, there is no way I could test if the target > package really works on that arch since I do not see a way to install the fixed builddep without > uploading it to the archive. > > Have you found any way around these? You can use local sbuild chroots for foreign architectures, both for building and, I assume, running autopkgtests. -- WBR, wRAR
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