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Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results



On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:25:15PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> I'm not really sure of what we should do about those problems. The
> easiest way to fix them is to use source-only uploads (to avoid packages
> built on broken maintainer machines), and a better sbuild that can use
> lvm snapshots so that it can start all builds with a clean environment.

Routine testing of this sort would help to catch this sort of problem,
since always building in a clean chroot will "mask" the problem--but
clean chroots would effectively prevent this for Debian.

Just FYI, there is a patch currently being discussed on the
buildd-tools-devel list which would add union filesystem support in
addition to lvm-snapshots.  This would also provide a mechanism to
always ensure a clean build (by overlaying a temporary scratch
filesystem over a clean chroot).


Regards,
Roger

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