[pacman-dev] How to test pacman
Hi, I'm starting to get an implementation for package siging and I would like an advice about how to test pacman without having to put it in my real system. Do you have an full virtual machine or just an chroot would suffice? Just for information, I want to test pacman-key, makepkg and repo-add to see if they can generate some valid contents. I've changed makepkg and repo-add to accept an optional key parameter, so that we can choose what key will be used. And I'm investigating how to use gpg directly, without gpgme, because the last is not very flexible. I'm learning about fork and execl for that matter and I believe that a initial implementation is nearer than what I've thought. By the way, I saw that Allan's branch gpg is updated, isn't it? Very good, so we don't lag behind. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------
On 18/06/10 22:05, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote:
Hi,
I'm starting to get an implementation for package siging and I would like an advice about how to test pacman without having to put it in my real system. Do you have an full virtual machine or just an chroot would suffice?
Some of us are silly enough to just run the git version of pacman on our systems... but I have done testing in a chroot before.
By the way, I saw that Allan's branch gpg is updated, isn't it? Very good, so we don't lag behind.
I am trying to keep it rebased on master so it will be easy to pull when the time comes. Allan
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Allan McRae
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Denis A. Altoé Falqueto