cowbuilder and --distribution experimental

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:28:05PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 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)

Is pbuilder-satisfydepends-experimental being used when running pbuilder
create and pbuilder update ?

Mike