[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#870102: automatically update schroots

[Antoine Beaupre]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.73.0-4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

It would be nice if sbuild automatically updated the configured
schroots. As things stand now, a configured schroot will slowly rot
down to a point where new builds will have to download a bunch of base
packages at each run, if sbuild is configured to automatically update
the schroot at build time. And if it's not, the resulting build will
be based on bit-rotten code as well.

I have used the following simple script in /etc/cron.weekly/sbuild:

#!/bin/sh -e

cd /etc/sbuild/chroot/
for chroot in *; do
    sbuild-update --update --upgrade --clean --autoclean --autoremove $chroot >/dev/null
done

I don't like it so much: "> /dev/null" is a crude hack, and it should
be possible to silence apt more carefully. But it works and is good
enough for my purpose.

Could that be considered upstream?

Thanks!

A.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser         3.115
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.73.0-4
ii  perl            5.24.1-3+deb9u1

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  autopkgtest  4.4
ii  debootstrap  1.0.89
ii  schroot      1.6.10-3+b1

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
pn  deborphan  <none>
ii  kmod       23-2
ii  wget       1.18-5

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