On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:15:35PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > The question rather is: Why does sbuild not run apt in the chroot? I > guess the answer is: "Because upstream's (i.e. the one used on the > official buildds) does not either, and there was no convincing argument > to change it". > > (Perhaps an answer to your above question is: "So that maintainers don't > get silly ideas like apt-getting/wgetting something during the build", > btw) > > Now, if you (or somebody else) comes up with a patch, we might consider > including it. > > However, I am a bit worried that this might break sbuild on hurd-i386, > as networking inside the chroot is AFAIK not known to work reliably on > the Hurd, and users of sbuild have reported trouble with it (though > perhaps they were unrelated). >
The answer is of course: support both operating mode and use an option or command line flag to enable the required one. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
