On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 06:07:58PM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: > One idea that was brought up at RWS2 in Berlin (I forgot who came up with it > now, sorry) is to add a mode to automatically attempt to detect which > variations cause a package to be unreproducible. kudos for that idea, again! :)
> Note that this is not as simple as a "bisect" algorithm which assumes that the
> items to be tested are in some linear order. In fact, it's unclear if we can
> make the algorithm (using the above example) more efficient than the brute
> force method of "test a, test b, test c".
I'm not fully sure how to take this into consideration, but some
variations are more likely to cause unreproducible builds than others,
IOW the ordering of the test shouldnt be random, but rather follow such
(assumed) probability.
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cheers,
Holger
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