Quoting Paul Wise (2019-10-08 02:35:14) > On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 11:29 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > I think "re-bootstrap, don't upgrade" is an equally good principle for > > autopkgtest and sbuild? Both will be equally susceptible to accumulating > > cruft during upgrades that wouldn't have been there in a fresh debootstrap, > > which is undesired if you want the invariant that you are (building|testing) > > in "today's" minimal environment. > > debootstrap uses a fair bit more time and resources than apt upgrade, > so I think that both are needed. This seems a good place to mention mmdebstrap as a speedier alternative to deboostrap. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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