On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Emanuele Aina wrote:
When building related set of packages most people resort to set up a local
archive to enable the newly built packages to depend on locally built
dependencies for which the needed version has not hit the main archive yet.
Since sbuild already sets up a dummy archive for build dependencies, it could
also allow users to specify a list of packages that should be pushed there.
To do so I've added an --add-extra-package option that accepts a debfile and
can be used multiple times. It already allowed me to locally build packages
which depend on stuff not yet in the archive without any additional setup.
The git repo (`add-extra-package` branch) with the patches is at
http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/em/sbuild/log/?h=add-extra-package
I also took the chance to refactor a bit the dummy archive handling and split
it out of the ResolverBase class. Even if not strictly needed it allowed me to
have a clear idea of the involved pieces and I think that the result is a bit
easier to understand and more flexible.
Comments and suggestions welcome, I'm not very proficient in Perl. :)
Hi Emanuele,
This looks like exactly what I was going for with this much smaller
patch, written for bug #700522:
https://github.com/geofft/sbuild/commit/3f7ecfde5e07c66ec1d7e88fac7423f94400f68b
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700522
Want to merge these two wishlist bugs? I haven't looked in detail at your
refactoring, but it felt like my patch was adding this in a slightly
questionable manner, so I'd be happy for yours to get merged instead if
it's preferable.
Also want to take a crack at --add-repository? :-) My plan there was to
patch `apt-get update` to let you update a single repository, clean up the
existing messy code that you refactored into force_update_archive_list()
to use that interface, and then allow adding a sources.list.d file and
updating that. Unfortunately the most obvious way to implement that apt
patch ends up with apt forgetting about every other source, and I didn't
have time to try harder.
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Geoffrey Thomas
gtho...@mokafive.com
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