On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 12:59:00PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > There have been, at least in the past, packages in ubuntu that do rely > on HOME being a real directory and would FTBFS locally when HOME > pointed to non-existant directory, but would build fine in launchpad. > > Hence I have 'HOME' => '/build/' in my ~/.sbuildrc. I shall drop that > now, to match launchpad's new behavior. > > But something to be aware of.
Indeed. I've also seen this in the past, but since Debian's builders point HOME to a nonexistent directory nowadays I expect it's getting rarer and should generally be considered a bug. > > * Snaps and live filesystems are now built in LXD containers rather > > than in chroots, laying the groundwork for them to be able to install > > snaps as build-dependencies. > > > > At the moment the only known regressions from this are in some corner > > cases of live filesystem building (powerpc and CPC). Let us know if you > > see anything else amiss, although as usual please try to reproduce > > problems locally before attributing them to the build environment. > > This has been noticed for the CPC case, and is trivially reporducible > with lxd and the OddBloke's cloud builder. I had an updated lxd > profile from steve that supposedly does work, shall I test that, and > do you need the updated (less restrictive) lxd profile for the devirt > CPC livecd builds? A priviledged lxd container alone is not enough > there. No thanks - I already have fixes for both the powerpc and CPC cases working their way through the deployment pipeline. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
