Bug#399754: FTBFS: Can not require network during build

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:

> [Goswin von Brederlow]
>> Create a debian/rules target 'update' that will fetch the latest
>> Release, sources, debs, whatever else you fetch now during
>> build. But don't call that target from any of the normal targets
>> used during build. When you upload a new source version you first
>> run debian/rules update, then build and upload.
>
> This will not work, as the set of available packages differ from
> architecture to architecture, so the autobuilders need to fetch the
> package list for their architecture for the build to succeed and
> generate the wanted meta-packages.

Then fetch them all. You can set the architecture for apt without
problems.

> We are looking into making the lack of network non-fatal.  It used to
> be like that, but was changed to improve our CD build.  We are looking
> into ways to make both the offline build and our CD build work. :)

Then what happens if you take source you last build on i386 and build
it on ppc without network? Does it reuse the i386 list since it
doesn't fail on network errors?

> Friendly,
> -- 
> Petter Reinholdtsen

MfG
        Goswin