Re: rebuilding the archive in a dirty chroot: results
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:20:47AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 26/01/08 at 08:59 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > 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).
>
> I was under the impression that the packaged sbuild isn't the one used
> on buildds, and that the buildd-tools-devel list discusses the packaged
> tools, not the one from the buildds.
Correct.
> So this improvement would only be available for the users of the
> packaged sbuild?
Probably
> Are there any plans to move to the packaged versions on the buildds?
Not to my knowledge.
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