Bug#638856: [pbuilder] fails to create with option --distribution experimental:
Junichi Uekawa
dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Tue Aug 30 10:37:00 UTC 2011
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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