[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#474160: Bug#474160: sbuild: please allow choice of schroot to be overridden

[Roger Leigh]

Simon McVittie <smcv at ianadd.pseudorandom.co.uk> writes:

> For normal builds, I want to build in a "pure" Debian unstable
> environment, so my unstable schroot is set up with Debian as its only
> apt source.
>
> However, sometimes when making multiple uploads that depend on each other
> (with strict versioning), it is useful to have a local apt repository in the
> sources.list too, so just-built packages which have been (or will be) uploaded
> to Debian, but have not yet propagated out to the mirrors, can be used to
> satisfy dependencies. I have an alternative unstable schroot,
> "sid-uploadqueue", with this configuration.
>
> The missing piece is that sbuild cannot be instructed to use the "upload
> queue" chroot except by specifying the -d option, which also alters the
> generated .changes file. Perhaps "sbuild -c sid-uploadqueue foo.changes"
> (mnemonic: same as "schroot -c sid-uploadqueue") could be used for this?

Yes, this sounds like a good idea.  Separating the build chroot name
From the upload distribution name will give a bit more flexibility to
what you can do.


Regards,
Roger

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