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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #717, comment 11

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4	4	> In that test, the test code installed the deps tarball and then ran build, and made sure that the code under test (which is our build system) did not try to download any package. The code under test passed and the test is green! So why did it do the right thing and pass that test even if it reproducible does the wrong thing in David-Sarah's scenario (comment:8)?
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6		In my scenario, I download a non-SUMO tarball, run {{{python setup.py trial}}} (expecting the dependencies to be downloaded and built before the test), and then run {{{python setup.py trial}}} again (expecting the previously downloaded dependencies to be used and not rebuilt). Are these expectations correct?
	6	In my scenario, I download a non-SUMO tarball, run ~~{{{python setup.py trial}}}~~ {{{python setup.py build}}} followed by {{{python setup.py trial}}} (expecting the dependencies to be downloaded and built before the test), and then run {{{python setup.py trial}}} again (expecting the previously downloaded dependencies to be used and not rebuilt). Are these expectations correct?
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8	8	In any case, this is not the same thing as downloading {{{tahoe-deps.tar.gz}}}, untarring it in the distribution directory and then running {{{python setup.py build}}}, which is what test-desert-island does.