On 2024-12-22 22:57:37, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quoting Antoine Beaupré (2024-12-22 22:39:51)
>> > 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"
>
> that one is for retrieving a base distribution for what is otherwise an
> overlay. For example, experimental is an overlay to unstable and
> bookworm-backports is an overlay for bookworm. You cannot create a chroot of
> bookworm-security -- you have to create a chroot for bookworm and then you can
> add the security archive on top. It would be wrong to use a bookworm chroot
> for
> somebody who wants to build for bookworm-backports. So the
> UNSHARE_MMDEBSTRAP_DISTRO_MANGLE option cannot be used for this.
I don't understand: how does that differ from the need expressed here?
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