Hi, Quoting Ian Jackson (2016-08-19 14:04:40) > And to those others who replied, I would like to point out that answers of > the form "oh no surely they don't" to questions like Johannes's can be > harmful.
I read their answers as: "I don't think it is necessary for sbuild to support a distribution that is so old that it doesn't receive any official or unofficial support anymore". > > I want to be able to build backports to old installations. > > Is there some other way for me to be able to do this which doesn't > involve all that annoying work ? > > What would happen if we took older sbuild and arranged for it to be > coinstallable with the new sbuild, so that one could use sbuild-old > for the old chroots ? > > Or perhaps there are other ways of doing this. Sadly I don't think > running a jessie chroot containing a lenny chroot (or whatever) is a good > plan... Old sbuild will not help you. The problem is mainly, that older chroots contain an apt installation that has no support for the [trusted=yes] option in sources.list. This in turn means that it is required of subild to sign the internal dummy repository. This signing happens with a private/public key pair that is generated by the host running sbuild. The challenge is, to make it such that the keys generated by gnupg on the host can be consumed by older gnupg inside the chroot. I did lots of work in this direction already by for example changing the export format for the keys generated by $(sbuild-update --keygen) but apparently there are still bugs around as recently reported by weasel via IRC. Since I sank lots of time into this issue of cross-gpg-version-compatibility already I was wondering if it is worth to spend more time on it than I already have or whether I can just rip out the whole key generation and consumption part. It is not needed anymore for any Debian release after squeeze (thanks to newer apt). If there are still users who plan to build for squeeze on sbuild from stretch, help to keep compatibility for squeeze would be very much appreciated. Thank you! cheers, josch
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