> How would I best go about researching this? I have all the components
> right here, and it's easy enough to trigger, but I have no experience
> whatsoever in debugging libraries or C code in general.
>
> I could try and set up a chroot to bisect pacman /
> lib{fetch,archive,alpm} but I have no clue how good or bad random
> pacman versions interact with the rest of the system.
What I did to replicate this was create a chroot ie
sudo mkdir -p archtest/var/lib/pacman
and then test with a large group something like this
sudo pacman -Sy gnome --cachedir
$(pwd)/archtest/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ -r ./archtest/
if you need to download again you can just purge chroot cachedir.
after that I'm not sure how best to debug libfetch possibly using
netstat, lsof and strace?
