[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#836175: Bug#836175: libsbuild-perl: Do not use single quotes in embedded perl script
Samuel Thibault
sthibault at debian.org
Sun Oct 16 10:32:41 UTC 2016
Johannes Schauer, on Sun 16 Oct 2016 11:38:09 +0200, wrote:
> Quoting Samuel Thibault (2016-10-16 11:17:40)
> > At least on the buildds we do it.
>
> I always wondered: what is the advantage of the sudo mode?
> - it is several orders of magnitude faster to create and destroy a schroot
> than the time spent in removing all installed packages after the build
It depends on the packages. For haskell packages, the package removal is
faster than schroot's unpack/rm. And when haskell moves, we have
litteraly hundreds of them to build :)
But yes, technically schroot is much safer, I just never managed to find
the time to change my buildds into using it.
Samuel
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