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Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan) wrote : Re: [Bug 1378245] Re: citrain could use a more accurate way to upgrade from silos

That's the silver bullet of testing, but I understand that may be some time
in the future. Until then citrain needs to do its job better - but I too
would like an image per silo

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Antti Kaijanmäki <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> How much effort would it be to actually build pristine images per silo
> that contain the packages in the silo?
>
> Each time we have to make the images writable and add silo ppa's
> manually and run apt-get we effectively taint the testing results as
> they don't match the state that a released image would have.
>
> Simple case: as the root is made writable we would not catch the
> situation where a component is actually depending on write access which
> would not be possible under ro root.
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