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Re: Building in chroots hides bugs?



On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 05:37:58PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > also sprach Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> [2006.08.01.1221 +0100]:
> >> Building in chroots *hides* bugs.
> >
> > Uh, what? Please give an example.
> 
> Missing Build-Conflicts aren't found.
> 
> Auto* scripts "fail" to run because they aren't installed.
> 
> Users, Groups, dirs, binaries don't exist that would outisde which can
> influence configure.
> 

If a package failts to build from source in a chroot environment, it
will fail to build on the autobuilders, and should thus be considered RC
buggy.

Neil
-- 
<gwolf> bah.... Germans. You just put 100 DDs in one country and then they all
	become friends of each other.

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