[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#478044: consider building under /build/$user/$arch/$pkg please

[martin f krafft]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.57.0-1
Severity: wishlist

sbuild builds package foo at /build/$USERNAME/foo-1.0. For various
reasons, I would like to use a bind mount for /build across several
chroots, including chroots of different architectures. This might
cause clashes if the same package is built on two different
architectures at the same time. This problem could be prevented if
the architecture became part of the path, e.g.
/build/$USERNAME/$arch/foo-1.0.

I realise I could achieve all this with two separate bind mounts and
configuration changes, but it seems that the problem may be common
or increasingly common with architectures like amd64 allowing the
build of other architectures, and cross-building infrastructure,
like dpkg-cross.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1+scoflowctrl.1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.107       add and remove users and groups
ii  apt                          0.7.11      Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  dctrl-tools                  2.12        Command-line tools to process Debi
ii  dpkg-dev                     1.14.18     package building tools for Debian
ii  perl                         5.8.8-12    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules                 5.8.8-12    Core Perl modules
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agen 2.5.2~rc2-1 High-performance mail transport ag
ii  schroot                      1.1.6-1     Execute commands in a chroot envir

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.8      Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  fakeroot                      1.9.4      Gives a fake root environment

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