[buildd-tools-devel] sbuild just hangs

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Jul 30 2015, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Johannes Schauer wrote:
>> there are (unfortunately) a number of situations I encountered when sbuild
>> would just hang or just fail without any sensible error message. In my case,
>> the most common reason for that was that the chroot it was instructed to use
>> (via the configuration file in your case because you did not specify the -d
>> parameter) did not exist.
>
> That's the usual case with me too. However I don't have any distribution
> set in the configuration file... instead sbuild is smart enought to figure
> it out from debian/changelog (or maybe from the .changes built out of the
> current directory).
>
> So when I have "UNRELEASED" as target distribution and call "sbuild", I
> get this hang. The simple solutions is to indicate the desired
> distribution: sbuild -d unstable

That was it! Thanks! In my case the problem was that "unstable" (as I
specified in the changelog) would not work either, because my chroot is
called "sid". So sbuild -d sid worked just fine.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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