[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#449253: Bug#449253: sbuild: pass --no-install-recommends to apt-get on new versions of apt

[Roger Leigh]

tags 449253 + patch
thanks

Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at iki.fi> writes:

> apt-get in unstable (0.7.something) has started installing recommends
> by default. Thus unstable sbuild chroots will now install many more
> packages than required (especially when dealing with texlive packages),
> potentially hiding lacking build-dependency problems.
>
> See #448562 on similar discussion on pbuilder.

Thanks for the notice.

Please could you test the following patch to confirm this does the
right thing?

diff --git a/Sbuild/Chroot.pm b/Sbuild/Chroot.pm
index 3398f5a..5b80df7 100644
--- a/Sbuild/Chroot.pm
+++ b/Sbuild/Chroot.pm
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ sub _setup_options {
 					    UNLINK => 0) ) {
 
 			print $F "APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated true;\n";
+			print $F "APT::Install-Recommends false;\n";
 
 			if (! rename $F->filename, $chroot_aptconf) {
 				die "Can't rename $F->filename to $chroot_aptconf: $!\n";



Thanks,
Roger

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