Re: sbuild on hurd-amd64...

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Stéphane Glondu, le jeu. 14 août 2025 15:48:41 +0200, a ecrit:
> Is there some Hurd-specific documentation about running sbuild?

I don't think anybody documented using it.

> The unshare backend does not work (I guess that's Linux-specific),

Yes it's Linux-specific.

I have discussed with Helmut about implementing a sub-hurd-based schroot
backend, it should be quite easy, just needs some dive-in to know how to
explain schroot how to run sub-hurds.

> and sbuild-createchroot also fails.

I don't know if somebody has already used sbuild-createchroot. I
personally have been using pbuilder since about ever. I'm using the
pbuilderrc below.

Samuel


MIRRORSITE=https://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/
AUTOCLEANAPTCACHE=yes
EXTRAPACKAGES="eatmydata debian-ports-archive-keyring"
USESHM=no
if [ -z "$LD_PRELOAD" ]; then
        LD_PRELOAD=libeatmydata.so
else
        LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD":libeatmydata.so
fi
export LD_PRELOAD
DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS=(
        '--force-check-gpg'
        '--extra-suites=unreleased'
        '--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg'
)
APTKEYRINGS=(/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg)