(my last mail to doko@debian.org bounced with "retry timeout exceeded" so I'm trying again with the ubuntu.com address as well) Hi, On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:30:26 +0100 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org> wrote: > when creating chroots for new architectures that are in the process of being > bootstrapped without yet having emulation support from qemu, it is not > possible to run maintainer scripts inside the foreign architecture chroot > because foreign architecture ELF binaries cannot be executed. The solution to > that problem is to run maintainer scripts from outside the chroot and use the > DPKG_ROOT environment variable to instruct the maintainer script on which > chroot to operate. By default, for normal installations, that environment > variable is set, but empty. > > Apart from init-system-helpers and pam, all packages in the > Essential:yes set have support for DPKG_ROOT already. To start building > packages we also need to install build-essential. > > Please consider applying the patch from this merge request: > > https://salsa.debian.org/toolchain-team/gcc-defaults/-/merge_requests/4 > > We tested it in our CI environment and it produces a bit-by-bit > identical chroot with DPKG_ROOT compared to a normal installation. > > https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/dpkg-root-demo/ > > Since the DPKG_ROOT variable is empty on normal installations, the patch > should have no effect in the normal case. I wanted to send a friendly ping about this bug. I see that since I filed this bug, you uploaded three new versions of gcc-defaults. Please consider applying the changes of above merge request against gcc-defaults on salsa. Here is the diff in plain text for your convenience: --- a/debian/g++.postinst.in +++ b/debian/g++.postinst.in @@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ # remove the doc dir, if it's still a directory and replace with a symlink pkg=`basename $0 .postinst` -if [ ! -L /usr/share/doc/$pkg ]; then - rm -rf /usr/share/doc/$pkg - ln -s cpp /usr/share/doc/$pkg +if [ ! -L "$DPKG_ROOT/usr/share/doc/$pkg" ]; then + rm -rf "$DPKG_ROOT/usr/share/doc/$pkg" + ln -s cpp "$DPKG_ROOT/usr/share/doc/$pkg" fi # fix for report #138038: remove old diversions
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