Bug#1074711: rootskel: FTBFS: ln: failed to create symbolic link '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/rootskel//etc/mtab': No such file or directory
* Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> [241020 22:40]:
> El 20/10/24 a las 21:55, Chris Hofstaedtler escribió:
> > Well. If it fails only in pbuilder or schroot, then thats a valid
> > bug, but also not so interesting anymore.
> >
> > I imagine the pbuilder env does not have /proc/mounts?
>
> I imagine it has, but I don't think that having or not having /proc/mounts
> is the reason for this package to fail randomly.
>
> (I have the feeling that maybe you are trying to simplify this too much,
> without taking in account all the available data).
Possible.
> I know for sure that Lucas Nussbaum uses sbuild with schroot and file-based
> chroots, and AFAIK reproducible-builds use pbuilder.
>
> So, if a bug which Lucas reported with version 1.136 also happened in
> reproducible-builds with version 1.137 (same error message), my preliminary
> conclusion is that the bug is still there, it happens randomly, and it may
> happen with both methods of building.
I'm just concerned because we're looking at "ln -fs" failing, and
the other involved parts seem relatively simple.
Maybe something very strange is going on, but that needs someone who
can repro the failure to investigate it.
Chris
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