Quoting Jochen Sprickerhof (2025-07-24 09:11:41) > * picca <pi...@debian.org> [2025-07-24 07:39]: > >I prepared a directory with a bunch of sources packages. > > > >Now I need to build them in the right order with sbuild. > > > >Do we have somethings which could do this out of the box. > > > >something like > > > >sbuild *.dsc -> which indeed fail :). > > See > > https://salsa.debian.org/lts-team/lts-extra-tasks/-/issues/60 > > For some available tools. In general this is a hard problem as the build > graph can contain cycles.
The problem is also hard because you only know the metadata of binary packages after you have built them. So lets say you have a bunch of generic *.dsc files in a directory and one of them Build-Depends: foo. What source package do you compile so that foo becomes available? Maybe foo is a virtual package and you have no way of knowing which source package builds a binary package that provides foo. So for the general problem you would do it the other way round: repeatedly test the Build-Depends of the *.dsc you want to build and queue those which have their B-D satisfied. Build them. Repeat. At some points you might run into cycles as Jochen mentioned and then you have to help manually. Once you write a script that does that you have re-invented a part of rebootstrap. Thanks! cheers, josch
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