[Piuparts-devel] Bug#850917: Please export /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives content after installation

[Michael Stapelberg]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> On 2017-01-11 12:44, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestion. I considered this, but I’m worried this
>> might blow up the logfiles quite a bit for some packages.
>
> How much "logfile" data would that be? Installing texlive-full in sid
> with --install-recommends produces 460 kb, distupgrading it from stable
> (without recommends) 700 kb, and there are some packages producing more
> output than that.

I don’t expect the output to be more than a few kilobytes, so size is
probably indeed not a concern. Making the files available under a
clean URL that is independent of the test result remains a concern of
mine, though.

Attached you can find a first stab at implementing this feature. I
introduced a new protocol message to transfer base64-encoded arbitrary
binary data. This can easily be used to transfer other files in the
same spirit, should that become necessary in the future (it also seems
like the clean thing to do, even if we’re just talking about a single
file). The files are then made available at
/<section>/aux/<package>_<version>/<filename>, e.g.
/sid/aux/libva1_1.7.3-2/alternatives.tar.gz.

Looking forward to your feedback,

-- 
Best regards,
Michael
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