Bug#381118: [Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#381118: sbuild: schroot + apt
download is broken
Daniel Stone
daniel at fooishbar.org
Wed Aug 2 11:54:44 UTC 2006
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 12:44:57PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> writes:
> > When using schroot and apt to download packages, the build tanks
> > quite early: apt-get source is called from within the chroot, but
> > none of the verify_md5sum stuff is, so it tries to verify the dsc in
> > ~/build/ in the host, and fails when it isn't there.
>
> Interesting.
>
> Perhaps we should still run apt-get outside the chroot, even when
> using schroot? I originally introduced it to make setup simpler, and
> to work around some bugs with apt-get (specifically, apt-listchanges
> and friends, and it running some things outside the chroot even when
> you set all the config parameters to use the chroot).
Depends what your usecase is. My use for this is running an i386
builder on amd64 (just requires a couple of hacks to pass the
architecture name in). I'd rather not have an sbuild chroot inside the
i386 chroot inside my real amd64 system ...
> > Interestingly, the failure mode is a hang in verify_md5sums, because
> > dsc_md5sums returns null, and verify_md5sums ends up calling
> > /usr/bin/md5sum, which hangs waiting for input ...
>
> That looks like an outright bug. dsc_md5sums should, IMO, return an
> empty hashref on failure, but doesn't currently.
Correct.
> I'm moving house in, ooh.. an hour and a half, and this computer is
> about to be packed into a box, so I'll have to take a better look
> tomorrow or Friday!
Thanks a lot. :)
Cheers,
Daniel
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