Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Reproducible build

[Claudius Heine <claudius.heine.ext@siemens.com>]

Hi Maxim,

On 2018-06-07 10:08, Maxim Yu. Osipov wrote:
> Hi Claudius,
> 
> As far as I understood, 'apt-move' doesn't fit your requirements.

The documented functionality of apt-move would fit the requirements, but 
since its no longer maintained and has bugs that makes it incompatible 
with debootstrap, it cannot be used.

> Nevertheless, diagram illustrating the approach you propose would be be 
> very helpful.
> 
> As for diagram you attached to email below, honestly, it's rather 
> difficult to understand it - too many arrows :(. It's worth to 
> additionally describe the steps in text (and put corresponding numbers 
> on the picture).

Yes I know its a bit overwhelming with all those arrows. It was much 
worse before and this is the result of much simplifications.

But either way, since we cannot use apt-move I have to investigate what 
is possible with reprepro and change the diagram accordingly.

Claudius

> 
> Kind regards,
> Maxim.
> 
> On 06/05/2018 12:42 PM, Claudius Heine wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2018-06-04 18:05, [ext] Claudius Heine wrote:
>>> I will try to post a small graphic about this soon.
>>
>> I attached the design Jan and me came up with yesterday.
>>
>> Hopefully its understandable enough even with all those arrows 
>> pointing around. I tried to vary the arrow lines and heads to signify 
>> dependencies/execution order, using of repositories and deploying 
>> packages to the repositories.
>>
>> The main point about this is that it will work with apt preferences 
>> repository pinning and that we will try to move all installed packages 
>> to the local cache after every step.
>>
>> I highlighted the new components in the diagram as green and the 
>> changed components as light green.
>>
>> If this is the way we want to go then I would try to get a RFC 
>> patchset started.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Claudius
>>
> 
> 

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