[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#727011: Bug#727011: sbuild insists on doing apt-get update

[Johannes Schauer]

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Hi,

On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:14:43 +0000 Ian Jackson <ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Roger Leigh writes ("Re: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#727011: sbuild insists on doing apt-get update"):
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 03:10:58PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > But it still does apt-get update.
> > 
> > I'll have to check in more detail, but I think that this is an
> > artifact of using the apt or aptitude resolver: after creating the
> > temporary archive with apt-ftparchive, we need to update apt.  By
> > default this does not (or at least should not) perform a full update.
> > If you set APT_UPDATE_ARCHIVE_ONLY ($apt_update_archive_only = 0)
> > then it should do a full update.
> 
> You mean if you set it to 1 it should perform fewer updates ?  I'm
> confused.
> 
> > Please could you retry with and without this setting enabled?  It
> > would be great to have debug logs for both cases as you provided here.
> 
> The previous log was done with "$apt_update_archive_only = 0" (in
> ~/.sbuildrc).  I ran it again with "$apt_update_archive_only = 1", and
> now it is much better.  See Xterm.log.zealot.2013.11.17.14.00.11.27825
> (attached).
> 
> I'm pretty sure, though, that I only changed this (if I did at all) in
> an attempt to try to make it not do an apt-update.
> 
> Let me try again ...
> 
> ... I ran it again with the package's supplied sbuild.conf and no
> .sbuildrc and it did do the apt-get update.
> Xterm.log.zealot.2013.11.17.14.00.11.27825-2.
> 
> I just edited sbuild.conf to add:
>   $apt_update = 0;
> and that fixed it.  Xterm.log.zealot.2013.11.17.14.00.11.27825-3.
> 
> If this is how it is supposed to work, sorry for being confused.

I'd expect that setting $apt_update to 0 should do the trick. Is there still a
bug or can this be closed?

Thanks!

cheers, josch
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