[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#781948: --extra-package doesn't work

[Sven Bartscher]

On Wed, 06 May 2015 18:51:56 +0100 Wookey <wookey at debian.org> wrote:
> So. It turns out that the problem is that the path/package gets used
> 'as-is' and there is no error reporting, so you have to use an
> absolute path or be sure that you have it right relative to where it
> will get run from.
> 
> In my case that means that if I do 
> sbuild -A -s --extra-package=../../cross-gcc-dev_25_all.deb
> --build=amd64 --host=amd64 -d unstable -c unstable-amd64-sbuild
> 
> then it works OK. Is this why Piotr had trouble?

For me this didn't work. I specified the package with `pwd`/foo.deb and
it still doesn't find the packages.

Regards
Sven