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

[Junichi Uekawa]

Feel free to file a bug at aptitude, but experimental isn't really a
full distribution, it only works when it does.

At Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:21:42 +0200,
Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote:
> 
> 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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