Re: pbuilder + local backports question
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
>> pbuilder-satisfybuilddeps is not smart enough to try packages from
>> repository with lower pin-priority, even if build-depends is versioned.
>> It just installs default version, without any notice.
>
> Completely correct; but there are two other flavors of
> pbuilder-satisfybuilddeps which you can configure via
> PBUILDERSATISFYDEPENDSCMD in pbuilderrc which are
> pbuilder-satisfydepends-experimental (which will try the default
> candidate APT version first, then all versions in increasing order for
> each build-deps), and pbuilder-satisfydepends-aptitude, which is still
> very young but can deal more easily with complex cases (and very fast).
>
> This is more or less covered in the pbuilder documentation, in the
> pbuilding for experimental section.
Thanks, looks like pbuilder-satisfydepends-experimental does exactly what I
need.
Btw, is it a bug or a feature that pdebuild option --pbuildersatisdydepends
works only when --use-pdebuild-internal is also given, and is ignored
otherwise?
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