Hi, Quoting Antoine Beaupre (2024-12-04 16:00:51) > I'm building an UNRELEASED package and then sbuild complains with this: > > E: Chroot for distribution UNRELEASED, architecture amd64 not found > > which, fair enough, there's no such tarball in my .cache/sbuild: > > $ find ~/.cache/sbuild/ > /home/anarcat/.cache/sbuild/ > /home/anarcat/.cache/sbuild/bookworm-amd64.tar.zst > /home/anarcat/.cache/sbuild/unstable-amd64.tar.zst > > but then sbuild says this: > > I: Applied base distribution name mangle rule > s/(?^:^(experimental|rc-buggy|UNRELEASED)$)/unstable/ turning "UNRELEASED" > into "unstable" > > ... so i thought "cool, that's smart, it's going to use my unstable > tarball! yaay!" > > ... but then it did this: > > I: Creating chroot on-demand by running: mmdebstrap --variant=buildd > --arch=amd64 --skip=output/mknod --format=tar unstable - > > Hmm. So it did *not* use the unstable tarball. > > The build works, so it's not *that* bad, considering how fast > mmdebstrap is, but it would sure be nice to skip that step entirely. > > And I know i can make symlinks to work around that, and that i can > use `$unshare_mmdebstrap_keep_tarball=1;` to keep the generated > tarball, but that all seems besides the point. This is a nice feature, it > just needs one last push to be perfect, IMHO. :)
I wasn't yet annoyed enough about this to add this "last push". In your mind, what should sbuild add to support this? I can only think of one logical implementation and that is to add yet another mangling/mapping option which expresses equivalence relationships or aliases of distribution names and if one is requested and the other already exists, just use that. The problem then is: which extra-args or distro-mangle options do you apply? Will those be mapped too? Which one will take precedence? The headaches that answering these questions gave me, made me hesitant to implement what one can manually accomplish using symlinks. But maybe you have a concrete idea on how the solution should look like? Thanks! cheers, josch
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