[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#566321: Bug#566321: buildd: Does not give a clue what's wrong when something is up with sbuild.

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:25:22PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:00:56PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > When sbuild returns an error message, I can never find that
> > error message and need to run sbuild manually to find out
> > what is wrong.
> 
> Could you provide a bit more detail, such as which type of
> error sbuild gives?  Are we talking about errors during a
> build, when initially starting up, when fetching sources?

Things like not finding the chroot because buildd calls sbuild
with the wrong arch.

> Are the errors reported in the package build log, or in
> the main log (build-xxx)?

I think think there is a log and that that is the problem.

I think there are also some cases where it did write it in the log
file but never mailed me.


Kurt