[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#337015: Does not correctly fetch experimental
depends
Loïc Minier
lool at dooz.org
Sat Mar 31 10:47:09 UTC 2007
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
> I got a stupid idea that may help solve this problem in a much simpler
> way: Create a fake dummy package containing the strict minimum to get apt
> do its job with the package dependencies.
That's an excellent and very inspiring idea; I was postponing work to
integrate the aptitude resolver because I thought it would require
writing C++. O:-)
I wrote a prototype pbuilder-satisfydepends-aptitude yesterday, and I
was able to build packages with pretty complex build-deps; it confirms
that the idea really makes sense as aptitude resolver proved to work
very well in my test cases.
(While searching for a way to let aptitude ignore repository GPG
signatures on IRC, mrvn ended up explaining he had implemented the same
idea to map Sources files into Packages files in order to allow easy
build-dep installation with APT; too bad I never heard of this before.)
[ There are a lot of cleanups and tests I have to make before merging
this in pbuilder, so I wanted to claim the work on this area here
first. ]
I'm interested if you have an idea in how to make aptitude ignore
unsigned repositories; the current pbuilder / apt-get accepts this, so
it would be a regression not to accept it.
--
Loïc Minier
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