On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 03:21:32PM -0600, Eric Biggers wrote: > That works with kvm-xfstests (gen-image), but it didn't work when I tried it > with gce-xfstests (gce-create-image) because nothing was actually copying the > debian packages into the GS bucket for the test appliance to install. How about > we update gce-create-image to copy the debian packages from > test-appliances/debs/ into the GS bucket (maybe gsutil rsync -d to a directory > 'debs'), so that it works in the way you're suggesting? Oh, right; I had forgotten. I was originally planning on copying the debian packages into the GS bucket, but I gave up on that because it was too slow. I didn't try using gsutil rsync, but the multiple round trips is very likely going to make things slower than we'd like. Actually, what would probably work better for gce-create-image is simply add jessie-backports to the apt sources list, and then use "apt-get install -t jessie-backports <package> ..." to get the newer version of e2fsprogs, f2fs-tools, etc. If we also use snapshots.debian.org URL instead of the standard debian download site (as we do with kvm-xfstests), it also has the advantage making the build of the image be perfectly reproducible. Converting kvm-xfstests to using jessie-backports as well is going to be a bit tricky, since debootstrap doesn't understand how to install from backports; so this would probably require hacking up something using python-debian and possibly python-apt. So perhaps we'll just change gce-create-image to use jessie-backports first, and we can convert kvm-xfstests later. - Ted P.S. BTW, I checked in with the f2fs-tools maintainer and he has no objections to porting the latest version of f2fs-tools from Debian stretch to Debian jessie, so that should be happening in the next week or so. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fstests" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
