Verification Builds and Snapshots For Debian

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 04:59:33PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2023-09-20, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 19/09/23 at 13:52 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> >> * Looking forward and backwards at snapshots
> >> 
> >> I do think that a more complete snapshot approach is probably better
> >> than package-specific snapshots, and it might be worth doing
> >> forward-looking snapshots of ftp.debian.org (and security.debian.org and
> >> incoming.debian.org), in addition to trying to fill out all the missing
> >> past snapshots to be able to attempt verification builds of older
> >> packages, such as all of bookworm.
> >> 
> >> Snapshotting the archive(s) multiple times per day, today, tomorrow, and
> >> going forward will at least enable doing verification rebuilds of
> >> packages starting from this point, with less immediate overhead than
> >> trying to replicate the entire functionality or more complete history of
> >> snapshot.debian.org.
> 
> In the meantime, I worked on a naive implementation of this, using
> debmirror and btrfs snapshots (zfs or xfs are other likely candidates
> for filesystem-level snapshots). It is working better than I expected!

Isn't this more or less what has been tried few times before, and it
works only until you load it with years worth of data?

-- 
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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