Re: What is the proper configuration of sbuild for backports ?

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi,

2014-04-19 5:26 GMT+02:00 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
> Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
>
>> 2) Use aptitude as a resolver.  This solves the problem on my local
>> machine, but I do not know if it will work on Debian's buildds (for
>> which I did not manage to find the configuration).
>
> It does in my experience.  This is what I do: I don't change the priority
> of backports in my chroot, so they're still not installed by default, but
> I tell pbuilder to use aptitude as the resolver.  It seems to correctly
> figure out when packages should be pulled from backports, and I've never
> had any trouble with packages built in that way building on the buildds as
> well.
>
> I use pbuilder instead of sbuild, but presumably the same thing will work
> with sbuild.
I build with sbuild and it works fine there, too.

Cheers,
Balint