On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 04:18, Adam D. Barratt <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk>wrote:
> +BUILDD_TARGET=$(shell [[ -e /etc/buildd_target ]] && sed
> 's,sid,unstable,g' /etc/buildd_target || echo "")
> +ifeq (${BUILDD_TARGET},)
> +USE_UDEBS_FROM=$(shell grep -q '/sid$' /etc/debian_version && echo
> "unstable" || cat /etc/debian_version)
>
> Right now, on a stable system, that will result in USE_UDEBS_FROM being
> set to "6.0.4". That doesn't seem like it will do anything useful,
> particularly as there's no such directory in dists/ (there's a
> "Debian6.0.4" symlink, but I imagine that trying to get apt to use that
> is unlikely to work well).
>
Ok; I can fix this using "lsb_release -c -s" in case it is not unstable.
> I realise that the plan is for it to be handled via the new variable, I
> just wonder if there's an alternative approach that doesn't rely on
> changes to every {old,}stable, testing and experimental build chroot. I
> pondered suggesting parsing sources.list, but then realised that won't
> work if sources.list.d files are in use.
>
I did a version that parsed sources.list before but it has too many
possible complications here.
> > This would allow us to have the experimental building working, using
> > experimental buildds, and use unstable for beta and rc releases. When
> > stable comes, buildds can set the suite according too.
>
> Has this been discussed with the buildd folks yet, given they'd need to
> be the ones adding all the flag files?
Only at Debconf; after that no. We ought to discuss this with them too.
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