Re: pbuilder + local backports question

["Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@debian.org>]

> 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?