[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#559655: Bug#559655: sbuild: dealing with experimental is a PITA

[Roger Leigh]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:06:21AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> I tried to set up an sbuild chroot since cowbuilder was driving me nuts,
> but it's not going much further. If apt-get is expected to behave badly,
> sbuild probably should take that into account. If tweaks are expected in
> the chroot (like apt pinning), that probably should be documented. And
> since I couldn't find a single bug about experimental, I'm opening this
> one.

There are IIRC some extra patches needed to make sbuild work nicely
when building experimental packages.  I did at one point merge some
changes needed for experimental autobuilding, but I think there may
be some outstanding patches which are missing.

I'll CC HE, who is probably the best person to ask about experimental
autobuilding AFAIK!

I am not aware of any specific setup HOWTO or other documentation
about configuring a Debian system to build from experiemental.  I
would be happy to add support for that to sbuild if I could, plus
add automatic setup of any specific chroot configuration such as
APT pinning etc.  I just don't have the specific knowledge to do
this I'm afraid, but I'm always happy to accept patches or
suggestions from those that do!


Regards,
Roger

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