Dear Maintainer,

Currently, if I want to test a fixed package on a porter-box machine,
there is no way to do so.
To elaborate, let's say I have version 'x' of a package 'foo' which fails it's
autopkgtest.

Now, I fix it locally on a porter box, and want to test my fix before upload, by running
autopkgtest on the porter box. Since autopkgtest needs root access to install the package
on the machine I am testing on, it will not work, as root perms on porter machines are not
granted.

Is it somehow possible to circumvent this? Or is it somehow possible to run autopkgtest
w/o installing the package, and "assuming" that the .deb is already there?

Regards,
Nilesh

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Hi Nilesh,

Let me check I got this right. You would like autopkgtest to test the
package by running tests from a built source tree, or from an arbitrary
location under your home directory, instead of using a system-wide
installed .deb?

Thanks,

Paride

Yes. This is to confirm that the fixes I've implemented for failing
autopkgtests resolve issues for a different architecture, which is the
specific problem I'm addressing.

The equivalent of
"$ sudo autopkgtest -B /path/to/deb  -- schroot <schroot-name>"

Best,
Nilesh