[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#825359: sbuild: unrealistic figure about total space used

[Santiago Vila]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Johannes Schauer wrote:

> Could you maybe:
> 
>  1. use debootstrap to create a new chroot
>  2. bind-mount /dev, /proc and /sys into that
>  3. chroot into the directory
>  4. install sbuild
>  5. run sbuild-update --keygen
>  6. run sbuild-createchroot
>  7. build a package
> 
> For me, following these steps lets sbuild produce the expected output. Can you
> confirm this? I can also send you a sequence of command line invocations to
> achieve the above if that makes things easier for you.
> 
> If you can confirm this, can you show me what the difference is between that
> setup and yours?

I'll try, but before that I would like to do a little bit of
"data mining" on my collection of build logs.

Maybe there is a pattern that would point to the cause for this.

As of now, I don't even know which is the smallest package on which this
effect happens.

Thanks.