Provided by: autopkgtest_3.20.4ubuntu1_all 
NAME
adt-run - test an installed binary package using the source package's tests
SYNOPSIS
adt-run options... --- virt-server [virt-server-arg...]
DESCRIPTION
adt-run is the program for invoking the autopkgtest package testing machinery.
autopkgtest is a facility for testing binary Debian or Click packages, as installed on a
system (such as a testbed system). The tests are those supplied in the source package.
adt-run runs each test supplied by a particular package and reports the results. It
drives the specified virtualisation regime as appropriate, and parses the test description
metadata, and arranges for data to be copied to and from the testbed as required.
See /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/README.running-tests.rst.gz for an introduction about how
to use adt-run.
SPECIFYING TESTS
Actions specify the source and binary packages to test, or change what happens with
package arguments:
--source dsc
Run tests from Debian source package dsc. By default the package will also be built
and the resulting binaries will be used to satisfy test dependencies; to disable
that, specify the -B/--no-built-binaries option before.
The ordering is significant: each --source option should precede options whose
dependencies are to be satisfied by the binaries it produces.
--unbuilt-tree directory
Specifies that tests from the unbuilt Debian source tree directory should be run.
This is very similar to specifying --source except that a directory tree (which
should be pristine) is supplied, instead of a source package.
--built-tree directory
Specifies that tests from the built Debian source tree directory should be run.
Note that all test dependencies are then satisfied by archive packages, unless you
explicitly specify locally built .debs with --binary.
--apt-source srcpkgname
Downloads srcpkgname with apt-get source in the testbed and run its tests. This is
similar to specifying --source but avoids copying the source from the host to the
testbed. Possibly built binaries will not be used to satisfy dependencies, as
usually in this mode you want to test binaries from a real archive.
--git-source URL [branchname]
Specifies that tests from the unbuilt Debian source tree from git-cloning URL
should be run. If branchname is given, this branch will be checked out instead of
the default (usually "master").
This is very similar to specifying --unbuilt-tree after cloning, i. e. this is
commonly used with --no-built-binaries. The git package will be installed if
necessary.
--binary deb
Specifies that deb should be used for tests of all following source packages. By
default it will be used to satisfy dependencies, both during building and testing.
The ordering is significant, as for --source. In particular, if a subsequent source
package will build a binary of the same name, that will be used from then on, and
deb will be ignored.
--changes changes
Specifies that the debs in the given .changes should be used for tests of the
source package in that .changes. Acts as if you had specified the .debs and .dsc
from a .changes file as explicit arguments.
--click-source clicksrc
Path to click source tree for subsequent --click package.
--click clickpkg
If clickpkg is a file (*.click), install given click package into testbed. If it is
a click name (like "com.example.myapp"), assume it is already installed in the
testbed and read the manifest from it.
Run click package tests from the preceding --click-source. If a click source
directory is not specified explicitly, it will be downloaded according to the
manifest's x-source entry. Currently the only supported schema is vcs-bzr.
filename
Bare filename arguments are processed as if --built-tree, --source, --unbuilt-tree,
--apt-source, --binary, --changes, --click-source, or --click was specified; the
nature of the argument is guessed from the form of the filename. In the case of
--built-tree, either the option must be specified, or the filename must end in a
slash; two slashes at the end are taken to mean --unbuilt-tree. If a given
directory has a "click" subdirectory, it is interpreted as --click-source.
TEST OPTIONS
Unless stated otherwise, these affect all subsequent test arguments.
-B | --no-built-binaries
All built binaries from subsequent --source or --unbuilt-tree tests will not be
built or ignored, and dependencies are satisfied with packages from the archive.
Note that packages still get built if a test requires build-needed.
--built-binaries
Subsequent --source or --unbuilt-tree tests will get built and their dependencies
be satisfied with the built binaries. This is the default behaviour, so you only
need this to revert a previously specified --no-built-binaries option.
--override-control=PATH
Read the test metadata from PATH instead of debian/tests/control (for Debian
sources) or the Click manifest for the following test.
--testname=TEST
Run only the given test name (from test control file) in the following test.
LOGGING OPTIONS
If you don't specify any option, adt-run only writes its output/results to stderr.
-o dir | --output-dir=dir
Specifies that test artifacts (stderr and stdout from the tests, the log file,
built binary packages etc.) should be placed in the given directory. dir must not
exist yet or be empty, otherwise adt-run will refuse to use it.
-l logfile | --log-file=logfile
Specifies that the trace log should be written to logfile instead of to output-dir.
--summary=summary
Specifies that a summary of the outcome should be written to summary. The events
in the summary are written to the log in any case.
-q | --quiet
Do not send a copy of adt-run's trace logstream to stderr. This option does not
affect the copy sent to logfile or output-dir. Note that without the trace
logstream it can be very hard to diagnose problems.
TEST BED SETUP OPTIONS
--setup-commands=commands
Run commands after opening the testbed. This can be used e. g. to enable additional
apt sources, run apt-get update or similar. If commands is an existing file name,
the commands are read from that; otherwise it is a string with the actual commands
that gets run as-is. File names without directory will be searched in both the
current directory and in /usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/ so you do not need
to give the full path for setup scripts shipped with autopkgtest.
This option can be specified multiple times.
If --user is given or the test bed provides a suggested-normal-user capability, the
$ADT_NORMAL_USER environment variable will be set to that user.
If the setup commands affect anything in boot directories (like /boot or
/lib/systemd/system) and the testbed supports rebooting, the testbed will be
rebooted after the setup commands. This can be suppressed by creating a file
/run/autopkgtest_no_reboot.stamp.
--apt-upgrade | -U
Run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade -y in the testbed before running the
tests.
--apt-pocket=pocket[=pkgname,src:srcname,...]
Add apt sources for release-pocket. This finds the first deb line in
/etc/apt/sources.list which does not already specify a pocket and adds a deb and
deb-src line with that pocket to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pocket.list. This also
calls apt-get update for the new pocket (but not for anything else).
If a package list is given after =, set up apt pinning to use only those packages
from pocket. An entry "src:srcname" expands to all binary packages built by that
source. This can be used for minimizing dependencies taken from pocket so that
package updates in that pocket can be tested independently from each other for
better isolation. Attention: This does not currently resolve some situations where
dependencies of the given packages can only be resolved in the given pocket. In
that case the apt pinning will be removed and package installation will be retried
with the entirety of pocket.
--copy=HOSTPATH:TESTBEDPATH
Copy file or directory from host into testbed after opening. This happens before
--setup-commands thus you can use these files in the setup commands.
--env=VAR=value
Set arbitrary environment variable in the build and test. Can be specified multiple
times.
USER/PRIVILEGE HANDLING OPTIONS
-u user | --user=user
Run builds and tests as user on the testbed. This needs root on the testbed; if
root on the testbed is not available then builds and tests run as whatever user is
provided.
--gain-root=gain-root
Prefixes debian/rules binary with gain-root. The default is not to use anything,
except that if --user is supplied or root on the testbed is not available the
default is fakeroot.
DEBUGGING OPTIONS
--debug|-d
Include additional debugging information in the trace log. Each additional -d
increases the debugging level; the current maximum is -ddd. If you like to see
what's going on, -d or -dd is recommended.
--shell-fail|-s
Run an interactive shell in the testbed after a failed build, test, or dependency
installation.
--shell
Run an interactive shell in the testbed after every test.
TIMEOUT OPTIONS
--timeout-which=seconds
Use a different timeout for operations on or with the testbed. There are five
timeouts affected by five values of which: short: supposedly short operations like
setting up the testbed's apt and checking the state (default: 100s); install:
installation of packages including dependencies (default: 3,000s); test: test runs
(default: 10,000s); copy: copy files/directories between host and testbed (default:
300s); and build: builds (default: 100,000s). The value must be specified as an
integer number of seconds.
--timeout-factor=double
Multiply all of the default timeouts by the specified factor (see --timeout-which
above). Only the defaults are affected; explicit timeout settings are used exactly
as specified.
LOCALE OPTIONS
--set-lang=langval
When running commands on the testbed, sets the LANG environment variable to
langval. The default in adt-run is to set it to C.UTF-8.
OTHER OPTIONS
--no-auto-control
Disable automatic test generation with autodep8, even if it is installed. In that
case, packages without tests will exit with code 8 ("No tests in this package")
just like without autodep8.
--build-parallelN
Set parallel=N DEB_BUILD_OPTION for building packages. By default this is the
number of available processors. This is mostly useful in containers where you can
restrict the available RAM, but not restrict the number of CPUs.
-h|--help
Show command line help and exit.
VIRTUALIZATION SERVER
--- virt-server virt-server-arg...
Specifies the virtualisation regime server, as a command and arguments to invoke.
virt-server must be an existing autopkgtest virtualization server such as adt-virt-
schroot or adt-virt-qemu. You can leave out the adt-virt- prefix and just specify
the last part, e. g. schroot.
All the remaining arguments and options after --- are passed to the virtualisation
server program. See the manpages of the individual servers for how to use them.
OUTPUT FORMAT
During a normal test run, one line is printed for each test. This consists of a short
string identifying the test, some horizontal whitespace, and either PASS or FAIL reason or
SKIP reason where the pass/fail indication is separated by any reason by some horizontal
whitespace.
The string to identify the test consists of a short alphanumeric string invented by adt-
run to distinguish different command-line arguments, the argid, followed by a hyphen and
the test name.
Sometimes a SKIP will be reported when the name of the test is not known or not
applicable: for example, when there are no tests in the package, or a there is a test
stanza which contains features not understood by this version of adt-run. In this case *
will appear where the name of the test should be.
If adt-run detects that erroneous package(s) are involved, it will print the two lines
blame: blamed-thing... and badpkg: message. Here each whitespace-separated blamed-thing
is one of arg:argument (representing a pathname found in a command line argument),
dsc:package (a source package name), deb:package (a binary package name) or possibly other
strings to be determined. This indicates which arguments and/or packages might have
contributed to the problem; the ones which were processed most recently and which are
therefore most likely to be the cause of a problem are listed last.
CONFIGURATION FILES
If you use lots of options or nontrivial virt server arguments, you can put any part of
the command line into a text file, with one line per option. E. g. you can create a file
sid.cfg with contents like
-s
--output-dir=/tmp/testout
--apt-upgrade
---
schroot
sid
and then run
adt-run foo_1_amd64.changes @sid.cfg
The contents of the configuration file will be expanded in-place as if you would have
given its contents on the command line. Please ensure that you don't place spaces between
short options and their values, they would become a part of the argument value.
EXIT STATUS
0 all tests passed
2 at least one test skipped
4 at least one test failed
6 at least one test failed and at least one test skipped
8 no tests in this package
12 erroneous package
16 testbed failure
20 other unexpected failures including bad usage
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/README.running-tests.rst.gz
/usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/README.package-tests.rst.gz
AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT
This manpage is part of autopkgtest, a tool for testing Debian binary packages.
autopkgtest is Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Canonical Ltd.
See /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/CREDITS for the list of contributors and full copying
conditions.