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Provisioning daemon local testing

Replicating the initial setup session for testing changes made to provd can be tricky and tedious. The Makefile included here attempts to make testing and feature iteration easier.

Provided lxd is installed, you should be able to quickly spin up a vm with the environment setup configured for walking through and testing changes to provd.

Build itteration

This setup is designed such that you can easily itterate over new provd builds. This aims to enable the workflow of:

  • Setup the vm with make prepare-vm
  • Make changes to provd
  • Build provd
  • Install provd on the vm via make install-deb
  • Boot into the vm to test via make attach-vm

This will be expanded apon below:

Environment setup

Installing required tools

You can install lxd and virt-viewer by running:

sudo make install-local-tooling

Setting up the vm

You can get the vm prepared by running:

make prepare-vm

This will bootstrap the vm with the required components, install the ubuntu-desktop-init frontend from the candidate branch and remove the default ubuntu user (a prerequisite for the Gnome Initial Setup to trigger).

Installing provd

Assuming you have a local .deb build and packaged for testing, you can run:

make install-deb

This will check the debian/changelog file for the latest version of the deb, search for it in the parent directory. If found, it will be copied over to the vm and installed.

Starting the GIS session

lastly, you can run

make attach-vm

This will restart the vm and open a virt-viewer window. GDM should detect no user is present and boot into the GIS session and allow you to set up a first user using the ubuntu-desktop-init + provd workflow.