Re: [PATCH test-artifacts] Add debian rootfs artifact

Re: [PATCH test-artifacts] Add debian rootfs artifact

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 02:03:07AM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> Will be used as dom0/domU in some tests.
> 
> Install OpenRC and setup it to start /etc/local.d/ scripts so tests
> don't need different cases for Alpine and Debian.

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I just hope people explicitly included in cc did got it...

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab

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Re: [PATCH test-artifacts] Add debian rootfs artifact

[Andrew Cooper]

On 07/08/2025 1:03 am, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> Will be used as dom0/domU in some tests.
>
> Install OpenRC and setup it to start /etc/local.d/ scripts so tests
> don't need different cases for Alpine and Debian.

(Yeah, I got this via CC.)

I was just thinking that we needed some non-Alpine testing too, but for
a different reason.

We have systemd configuration in Xen, and changes to it, yet no CI of
what is the most common init system in Linux these days.

What would need to be different in tests to avoid OpenRC?  If it's only
the script to start the test running, can't we just declare a name, and
arrange for both init systems to run it?

~Andrew

Re: [PATCH test-artifacts] Add debian rootfs artifact

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 08:55:56AM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 07/08/2025 1:03 am, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > Will be used as dom0/domU in some tests.
> >
> > Install OpenRC and setup it to start /etc/local.d/ scripts so tests
> > don't need different cases for Alpine and Debian.
> 
> (Yeah, I got this via CC.)
> 
> I was just thinking that we needed some non-Alpine testing too, but for
> a different reason.
> 
> We have systemd configuration in Xen, and changes to it, yet no CI of
> what is the most common init system in Linux these days.
> 
> What would need to be different in tests to avoid OpenRC?  If it's only
> the script to start the test running, can't we just declare a name, and
> arrange for both init systems to run it?

In this particular test, probably just that. And convincing
systemd/journald to dump logs to the console. But some other tests (if
we'd want to reuse this artifact) wait for "Welcome to Alpine Linux"
text, or start other services via /etc/init.d (mostly xencommons...).

And also - installing openrc takes 3MB, installing (just) systemd takes
30MB. And I haven't tried yet if any auxiliary package isn't needed
too...
But I can see what it takes to make the test use systemd.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab

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