Testing package imports locally

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 17:14 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> I've been wanting to get into handling some of the bugs with the package
> importer, such as:
>   https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/udd/+bug/508251
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> However, I really don't know a way to run the package importing
> manually. I can write unit tests, but without running a real import, I
> can't be sure that my assumptions are valid.
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> So how does one go about setting up a local package importer. Or can we
> set something up somewhere like tungsten/chinstrap/devpad/etc so all of
> us have a sandbox that we can go play in.

See the attached message from this list back in december. There is more
to the thread :)

-Rob
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