X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/46f8bde1df25100378fe19138cecf0eefdf1c35c..cec140bdf2d777199acb4d7c14066d510ce3ff93:/blog/data/2013-06-22-skolelinux-testsuite.txt?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/blog/data/2013-06-22-skolelinux-testsuite.txt b/blog/data/2013-06-22-skolelinux-testsuite.txt index 2cbf11016f..a19dff8720 100644 --- a/blog/data/2013-06-22-skolelinux-testsuite.txt +++ b/blog/data/2013-06-22-skolelinux-testsuite.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Title: The value of a good distro wide test suite... Tags: english, debian edu Date: 2013-06-22 07:00 -

In the Debian Edu / +

In the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project, we include a post-installation test suite, which check that services are running, working, and return the expected results. It runs automatically just after the first boot on @@ -20,11 +20,12 @@ suite, I discovered that we had forgotten to adjust our PXE setup to cope with the new names and paths used by the netboot d-i packages. When Internet connectivity was available, the installer fall back to using wget to fetch d-i boot images, but when offline it require -working packages to get it working. And ad the packages changed name +working packages to get it working. And the packages changed name from debian-installer-6.0-netboot-$arch to debian-installer-7.0-netboot-$arch, we no longer pulled in the packages during installation. Without our test suite, I suspect we -would never have discovered this before release.

+would never have discovered this before release. Now it is fixed +right after we got the ISOs operational.

Another by-product of the test suite is that we can ask system administrators with problems getting Debian Edu to work, to run the @@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ the problem.

If you want to help us help kids learn how to share and create, please join us on -#debian-edu on +#debian-edu on irc.debian.org and the -debian-edu@ mailing +debian-edu@ mailing list.