[buildd-tools-devel] sbuild: multiarch build support

[Philipp Kern]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:21:17AM +0100, Wookey wrote:
> We've (Dima Kogan and I) just got support for multiarch builds working in sbuild.
> 
> This removes one blocker for having multiarch-built cross-toolchains in the archive.
> 
> If anyone at debconf can help us with applying this to the sbuild used
> on buildds we'd love to be able to upload a cross-gcc package that
> uses it so we can test other parts of the infra (wanna-build, dak,
> britney). (The tests I just did were using https://buildd.debian.org/apt/pool/wheezy/sbuild_0.64.0-1+buildd20140816.0.dsc which I think is the right version)
> 
> The patch simply identifies explicit arch-qualified build-deps (of the
> form libfoo:arch) and if present runs dpkg --add-foreign-architecture
> arch (as it already does for cross-builds). Apt takes care of the rest.
> 
> The second part (for removing the arch after the build (on permanent
> chroots)) needs more work as usually there are binaries of the foreign
> arch installed so the arch-removal fails.
> 
> Comments on the code are welcome.
> 
> These patches apply to both the 0.64.0-1+build20140816.0 above and to
> git master from git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/buildd-tools/sbuild.git

Is this still open? If so, no patch had been attached and no pointer to
code was provided AFAICS.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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