Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 15:02, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:
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> tl;dr: We may be messing up /bin and /usr/bin on some platforms
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> Sorry for the alarming headline but #913982 was filed, indepedently
> corrobated and simultaneously discovered by upstream.
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> GNU R has long been relying on sed, tar, bzip2, ... and many more base
> tools. No issues there. Generally looked for in /bin and found there.
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> Starting with binary rebuild r-base_3.5.1-1+b2 however, /usr/bin/* path crept
> in while the binaries where still in the wrong place. It looked like a
> one-off so I uploaded 3.5.1-2 which built fine for me on amd64 ...but
> apparently is already borked again on i386.
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> I am at bit of loss here. Any ideas?
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In Ubuntu, whilst debootstrap and all install methods default to
merged-usr from Disco+ the buildd chroots used by launchpad are not
merged-usr. Given that at the moment in Ubuntu we are choosing to not
force-merge users on upgrade. Granted, Launchpad does not accept
binary-uploads, thus things like these are easier to curate. But e.g.
one can create local chroots with --no-merged-usr passed to the
debootsrap and upload those binaries. But obviously buildd chroots
need to be switchted to --no-merged-usr as well for the time being
then.
Note this is a build-environment change, rather than target system
things. Possibly we should be encoding merged-usr in the buildinfo,
and e.g. using reproducible builds infra to do "build in
--no-merged-usr, rebuild in --merged-usr, result should be the same"
either as a one-off, or on the ongoing basis.
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Regards,
Dimitri.
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