Roger Leigh wrote: > However, in order to understand the implications, we need concrete > data about exactly how they differ, and under what situations. What > I would like to do is a rebuild of the squeeze archive (since it > won't change between builds) using each of the "internal", "apt" and > "aptitude" resolvers. Since sbuild records the complete set of > packages available immediate before the build starts, we can extract > this from the build logs, find any differences, and determine what > causes them, if and when they occur.
Am I missing something or your really don't need none of the following: > What is needed: [...] > - with a lot of disc space > - and a lot of spare CPU cycles > - schroot > - LVM > - The builds will use a cleanly debootstrapped squeeze on an LVM LV, > which can be freshly snapshotted for each build, as on buildds. > This will make the comparisons between resolvers identical. ? All you seem to want is the resolver's results, nothing else. In fact, a simple, clean, chroot running apt-get --dry-run build-dep, and aptitude --simulate build-dep should do it. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ijcpqp$g0f$1...@dough.gmane.org
