[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#553301: Bug#553301: sbuild: should display version from packages already installed on the chroot

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 23:12 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
> On Thursday 29 October 2009 21:00:00 Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > Package: sbuild
> > Version: 0.59.0-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > Sometimes, a build failure is caused by a change introduced in one of
> > the build-dependencies. It would help to see which versions of the
> > packages are already installed in the chroot to identify these (and
> > maybe build-conflicts). I think a simple dpkg -l before installing
> > build-deps woud suffice.
> 
> This sounds better as an external command you would run at this part of a 
> build run (in the chroot before any build dependencies are installed). I would 
> be willing to work on something like this. See the last two messages of bug 
> #551311 for something related.

Well, I don't really care how this is implemented, except that it is run
by default. The main point of this is to see what packages were
installed in the buildds.

-- 
Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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