Re: daily pestering about s390 and sparc buildd failure

[Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:11:40AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
> 
> > To debug this, I need access to an s390 or a sparc, or the buildd
> > maintainers of those architectures need to figure out why their build
> > daemons are not installing packages correctly.
> 
> Looks like I can log on vore, the sparc autobuilder which is failing.
> 
> So vore is running woody.  Such commands as "apt-cache show xlibs-dev"
> show the woody versions--which have way fewer dependencies, of
> course.  And "apt-cache show libx11-dev" reports that the package
> doesn't exist (which it doesn't in woody).
> 
> Yet, the xlibs-dev that vore is downloading in the sbuild run is the
> correct sid version--though this doesn't explain then why it doesn't
> get the dependency (libx11-dev).  Presumably sbuild is running in a
> chroot.
> 
> But if apt-get is reading dependency information from woody, and then
> installing sid packages, this might explain the problem.  (My
> recollection is that apt-get runs dpkg with --force-depends or
> something like that, right?)
> 
> As yet, nobody has volunteered to help.

Thomas, meet dchroot, dchroot, meet Thomas.

(base)apollock@vore:~$ dchroot -l
Available chroots: unstable testing stable oldstable sid sarge woody potato

regards

Andrew