Replication package for MSR 2015
We provide here the information necessary to replicate the historical analysis of coinstallability issues in the Debian distribution described in the article A historical analysis of Debian package incompatibilities by Maelick Claes, Tom Mens, Roberto Di Cosmo and Jérôme Vouillon.
This information consists of the code and scripts used to retrieve and analyse the historical information from the snapshot.debian.net archive.
The instruction provided here are intended for execution on a *nix system, especially a GNU/Linux based one, and preferentially a Debian based one, where the prerequisite tools are pre-packaged.
Prerequisites
Install or compile the coinst tool, which is described elsewhere. On a debian system, just issue the command
apt-get install coinst
Step 1: retrieve the historical data, and run coinst
The bash script process.sh downloads all the needed historical data from the snapshot.debian.net archive, and runs the coinst tool on each data point.