On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:06:21AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I tried to set up an sbuild chroot since cowbuilder was driving me nuts, > but it's not going much further. If apt-get is expected to behave badly, > sbuild probably should take that into account. If tweaks are expected in > the chroot (like apt pinning), that probably should be documented. And > since I couldn't find a single bug about experimental, I'm opening this > one.
There are IIRC some extra patches needed to make sbuild work nicely when building experimental packages. I did at one point merge some changes needed for experimental autobuilding, but I think there may be some outstanding patches which are missing. I'll CC HE, who is probably the best person to ask about experimental autobuilding AFAIK! I am not aware of any specific setup HOWTO or other documentation about configuring a Debian system to build from experiemental. I would be happy to add support for that to sbuild if I could, plus add automatic setup of any specific chroot configuration such as APT pinning etc. I just don't have the specific knowledge to do this I'm afraid, but I'm always happy to accept patches or suggestions from those that do! Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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