[Bug 1519677] Re: add lxd backend

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This bug was fixed in the package autopkgtest - 3.19

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autopkgtest (3.19) unstable; urgency=medium

  New features/behaviour changes:
  * Add adt-virt-lxd runner for LXD. (LP: #1519677)
  * Add adt-build-lxd tool for building or updating an LXD image with
    standard autopkgtest customizations applied. This is similar to
    adt-build-lxc.
  * Unify test bed setup scripts for VMs (adt-setup-vm), containers (in
    adt-build-lxc) and cloud (setup-commands/cloud-vm-setup) into a common
    script setup-commands/setup-testbed. This will work both for image
    building (VM, cloud, LXC, LXD) and as --setup-commands (in which case some
    actions are skipped).
  * setup-commands/setup-testbed: Clean up many more packages. Only do this
    when building an image, to avoid accidentally destroying testbeds which
    are not minimal autopkgtest ones.
  * Make --env apply to package builds too. With that you can e. g. set
    DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
  * Add new action type --git-source which installs git (unless already
    present), checks out a remote branch, and then behaves like
    --unbuilt-tree.
  * adt-virt-lxc.1: Mention adt-build-lxc in "Requirements".

  Bug fixes:
  * If apt-get fails when installing test dependencies and apt
    pinning is in use, also retry without pinning. This was already done in
    the case of apt-get succeeding but removing our "satdep" dummy package
    (the common case), but this does not cover upgrades of Priority: >=
    important packages which make apt-get exit with non-zero.
  * Set $TERM in testbed to the host's value when starting an interactive
    shell in the testbed. This fixes broken shells with the LXC/LXD runners.

 -- Martin Pitt <mpitt at debian.org>  Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:45:54 +0100

** Changed in: autopkgtest (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  add lxd backend

Status in autopkgtest package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  LXD is the direction that the LXC project is moving towards, and it
  has several nice features that are helpful for autopkgtest: fast
  container creation with intelligent caching, support for local images
  (with autopkgtest modifications), and seamless support for remote
  containers.

  We need the latter for moving armhf testing into Scalingstack, as we
  don't have native armhf support there. We can create a big semi-
  permanent arm64 instance and then create armhf lxd containers  in
  that, and talk to them from the autopkgtest controller node in
  ProdStack using the arm64 instance as a remote. This cannot be done
  with either the ssh runner (that would need some rather complicated
  setup script) nor the lxc runner (I tried wrapping ssh around it, but
  the extra level of shell processing/quoting breaks stuff).

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