Hi! On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:56:46AM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > The building of a package should not produce a different package if > some additional packages not listed in "Build-Conflicts" are > installed. > > In other words, if you specifically do not want "atlas3-base-dev" to > be present during the build then you should put it in > "Build-Conflicts". I am aware, but want to avoid it. > I know that this does not explain why pbuilder is behaving the way it > is but it seems to be a solution. Well, here's a further diagnosis. For some reason, the order of installed packages in the buildds (and my pbuilder) are being reordered in alphabetical order. See this old log. The apt-get command follows the same order as specified in the package's Build-Depends: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=octave2.9&ver=1%3A2.9.17-1&arch=sparc&stamp=1195174810&file=log But here, it is in alphabetical order: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=octave2.9&ver=1%3A2.9.19-1&arch=sparc&stamp=1197772112&file=log And I saw the source package for octave2.9, here's the control: Build-Depends: g++-4.1 (>= 4.1.1-4), debhelper (>= 5.0.0), autoconf, texinfo, texlive-latex-base, texlive-generic-recommended, g77, libreadline5-dev, libncurses5-dev, gperf, libhdf5-serial-dev (>= 1.6.5) | libhdf5-lam-dev (>= 1.6.5) | libhdf5-mpich-dev (>= 1.6.5), refblas3-dev | atlas3-base-dev, lapack3-dev | atlas3-base-dev, gnuplot-nox, fftw3-dev, texi2html, less, dpatch, slice, libpcre3-dev, flex, libglpk-dev (>= 4.15), libsuitesparse-dev, gawk, gs-gpl, libcurl4-dev, libqhull-dev, desktop-file-utils Notice that refblas3-dev is _before_ lapack3-dev. Now, if apt-get is called faithfully in this order, atlas does not come in. But if it is reordered, the lapack3-dev dependencies are honoured first, and that pulls in atlas3-base, which is the first alternate dependency, and is satisfiable. Now, the question is, where is the reordering occurring? sbuild? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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