[buildd-tools-devel] sbuild just hangs

[Roger Leigh]

On 30/07/2015 15:56, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> 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.

Note that you probably want

   -d unstable --chroot=sid

(IIRC) since the distribution is also used when doing stuff that needs 
the correct distribution name, e.g. making NMUs which needs a valid 
changelog entry.  The --chroot option selects a different chroot without 
altering the distribution in use.

Note that you can add "aliases=unstable-amd64-sbuild" or equivalent for 
your distribution/arch to your schroot configuration, which will make it 
select the appropriate distribution when you use "-d unstable".


Regards,
Roger