Merge ~xnox/autopkgtest-cloud:linux-dash into autopkgtest-cloud:master

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Whitelist linux-* as big packages to include all custom kernels.

LP: #1831446

Whitelist linux-* as big packages to include all custom kernels.

LP: #1831446

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Thank for this, but as mentioned in

  https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/autopkgtest-cloud/+git/autopkgtest-cloud/+merge/368258

we should do this in a more generic way.

I hope you're able to work on it, but if not then let me know and I'll put it on the autopkgtest backlog.

review: Disapprove

Unmerged commits

ca23d16... by Dimitri John Ledkov on 2019-06-03

Whitelist linux-* as big packages to include all custom kernels.

LP: #1831446

diff --git a/worker/worker b/worker/worker
index f431a6c..69ca877 100755
--- a/worker/worker
+++ b/worker/worker
@@ -347,6 +347,13 @@ def request(msg):
     container = 'autopkgtest-' + release
     big_pkg = pkgname in cfg.get('autopkgtest', 'big_packages').strip().split()
 
+    # whitelist all linux kernel flavours into big_pkg as there are
+    # many flavours with -edge, -edge-next, -hwe variants. This is a
+    # wide net, as there are a few non-kernel packages starting with
+    # linux-*, e.g. linux-ftpd etc.
+    if pkgname.startswith('linux-'):
+        big_pkg = True
+
     autopkgtest_checkout = cfg.get('autopkgtest', 'checkout_dir').strip()
     if autopkgtest_checkout:
         argv = [os.path.join(autopkgtest_checkout, 'runner', 'autopkgtest')]