[Piuparts-devel] Bug#709348: Bug#709348: closed by Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> (where's the bug?)

[Holger Levsen]

control: retitle -1 piuparts: reports debsums failure when used with chroots generated by cdebootstrap (eg used by pbuilder)
control: tags -1 - moreinfo
thanks

Hi Helmut,

On Montag, 3. Juni 2013, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> The initial problem was a debsums failure. I tracked it down to
> cdebootstrap-helper-rc.d.

Right. I do remember this now, as well as our irc conversation about it. When I just looked at this bug, I had forgotten about this...

> piuparts claims to cooperate with pbuilder. pbuilder claims to cooperate
> with cdebootstrap. So when pbuilder is advised to use cdebootstrap,
> piuparts fails to work with pbuilder. Clearly that's a bug. 

Ah!

> We discussed that bug on irc. At that time you agreed it was a bug and
> you did not point out that using cdebootstrap is unsupported. I am sorry
> if I failed to encapsulate all the relevant detail in the initial
> submission mail and hope that this mail gives some clarity.

It did, thanks.
 
> Thanks for bearing with me.

Likewise & thanks for flying piuparts airlines! :-)

> Not sure how we should handle this. There is nothing wrong when using
> pbuilder with cdebootstrap. It just starts breaking when combining these
> three parts. Maybe document it somewhere explicitly, that a specific
> pbuilder configuration is required? Maybe ask cdebootstrap to use a
> different mechanism? Maybe just pick the policy-rc.d script that is
> shipped by cdebootstrap anyway?

Something like this, yeah. Probably maybe just override /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d with our version.

But I also have the feeling this "piuparts supports pbuilder" thing should be documented better. And piuparts should probably just pick up a pbuilder base.tgz if it finds it...


cheers,
	Holger


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