Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I know a little about buildd, but I guess that it try to build a package > and it if fail someone take its logs and submit a bug report. > At the end of the build process I guess that the build environment is > totally cleaned and that survive only a build log.
Most buildds are set to purge on success so you can go in and poke around after a failure. > > Is it possible to have access to a snapshot of the build environment ? > > I asked this cause I receive a bug report, but I need to better know the > situation in which the failure occured to find and solve the bug. It was my bug report and I've tarred up the failed build and sent a msg to Stefano. If anyone is interested, the wanna-build CVS is at http://m68k.debian.org. sbuild is the real workhorse. It's not trivial to set up; in fact, you really need a reference system to get it working properly in a reasonable amount of time. But at its core it's just a chroot with the essential and build-essential packages installed, doing builds with dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo -B -uc -us Rick --
