cowbuilder and --distribution experimental

Junichi Uekawa dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Sun Apr 6 09:28:05 UTC 2008


Hi,

> > 
> > Heh, I guess we have a different definition of 'properly'.
> > 
> > pbuilder experimental usage assumes we can install everything from
> > experimental and get done with it, but I assume there are some
> > packages which don't go along with each other well.
> > 
> > But that shouldn't make pbuilder work and cowbuilder not work. I'm
> > confused.
> 
> I have the same problem with pbuilder... apt prefers packages from
> experimental over those from sid, while it should be the contrary, and
> the dummy package for build-dependencies would make sure the build
> dependencies are downloaded from experimental when needed (that's what
> versioned dependencies are for, aren't they?).

Have you tried using 'pbuilder-satisfydepends-experimental' ? (man
pbuilderrc)

regards,
	junichi
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