Bug#638856: [pbuilder] fails to create with option --distribution experimental:

Mònica Ramírez Arceda monica at probeta.net
Tue Aug 23 00:21:42 UTC 2011


El dl 22 de 08 de 2011 a les 19:57 +0000, en/na Thorsten Glaser va
escriure:
> Mònica Ramírez Arceda dixit:
> 
> >I am trying to create a chroot environment using the experimental
> >distribution option:
> 
> Is that even possible, as experimental is no full suite?

>From pbuilder man page:

--distribution [distribution]
	Specifies  the  distribution  used.   The  supported values are the ones debootstrap supports, plus
	experimental which is special cased in pbuilder.  For instance you may use: sid or experimental .

If you look the log that I attached (lines 650-663), it seems that
pbuilder downloads some packages from sid and some others from
experimental.

> I’d debootstrap with sid then put experimental into the
> sources.list(5), then run cowbuilder --update or whatever.

Finally, I followed these instructions [0] and they obviously
worked :-) 

[0] http://wiki.debian.org/PbuilderTricks#How_to_satisfy_experimental_dependencies

But I think pbuilder is offering an automatic way to install
experimental (mixed with the sid packages that are not in experimental).
Maybe I misunderstood something?

Cheers,
Mònica






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