Bug#836940: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#836940: cowbuilder, sbuild: should behave identically in regard to default gnupg installation

Johannes Schauer josch at debian.org
Wed Sep 7 17:53:36 UTC 2016


Hi Mattia,

Quoting Mattia Rizzolo (2016-09-07 19:50:14)
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 02:36:50PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > >In fact, to further minimize the number of packages installed into the build
> > >chroot, I have plans to even get rid of apt and its dependencies during the
> > >build and only leave build-essential, Essential:yes packages, the build
> > >dependencies and their transitive dependencies.
> > 
> > And libcowdancer and libeatmydata, I presume… or we
> > could inject them via /tmp.
> > 
> > Good idea! (Though please make this optional. For
> > slower architectures, adding and removing apt all
> > the time will suck; on m68k I even added debhelper
> > into the base chroot as 99% of all packages need
> > it anyway, as a speed hack.)
> 
> If people would like this for pbuilder please file a bug, as I don't
> have any plan right away, and I'll surely forget it.  (and of course patches
> welcome :P)

once you do implement this in pbuilder, come back to me because I'm currently
implementing this for sbuild using three different approaches and you might
want to copy some stuff from sbuild to not write everything from scratch. :)

Thanks!

cheers, josch
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