On 2024-12-22 22:25:02, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quoting Antoine Beaupre (2024-12-04 16:00:51)
>> I'm building an UNRELEASED package and then sbuild complains with this:
>>
>> E: Chroot for distribution UNRELEASED, architecture amd64 not found
>>
>> which, fair enough, there's no such tarball in my .cache/sbuild:
>>
>> $ find ~/.cache/sbuild/
>> /home/anarcat/.cache/sbuild/
>> /home/anarcat/.cache/sbuild/bookworm-amd64.tar.zst
>> /home/anarcat/.cache/sbuild/unstable-amd64.tar.zst
>>
>> but then sbuild says this:
>>
>> I: Applied base distribution name mangle rule
>> s/(?^:^(experimental|rc-buggy|UNRELEASED)$)/unstable/ turning "UNRELEASED"
>> into "unstable"
>>
>> ... so i thought "cool, that's smart, it's going to use my unstable
>> tarball! yaay!"
>>
>> ... but then it did this:
>>
>> I: Creating chroot on-demand by running: mmdebstrap --variant=buildd
>> --arch=amd64 --skip=output/mknod --format=tar unstable -
>>
>> Hmm. So it did *not* use the unstable tarball.
>>
>> The build works, so it's not *that* bad, considering how fast
>> mmdebstrap is, but it would sure be nice to skip that step entirely.
>>
>> And I know i can make symlinks to work around that, and that i can
>> use `$unshare_mmdebstrap_keep_tarball=1;` to keep the generated
>> tarball, but that all seems besides the point. This is a nice feature, it
>> just needs one last push to be perfect, IMHO. :)
>
> I wasn't yet annoyed enough about this to add this "last push".
>
> In your mind, what should sbuild add to support this?
>
> I can only think of one logical implementation and that is to add yet another
> mangling/mapping option which expresses equivalence relationships or aliases
> of
> distribution names and if one is requested and the other already exists, just
> use that. The problem then is: which extra-args or distro-mangle options do
> you
> apply? Will those be mapped too? Which one will take precedence?
Why not just use the existing logic from?
> I: Applied base distribution name mangle rule
> s/(?^:^(experimental|rc-buggy|UNRELEASED)$)/unstable/ turning "UNRELEASED"
> into "unstable"
a.
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