I can confirm that sbuild 0.87.1 removes the need for my .sbuildrc to contain:
$unshare_mmdebstrap_auto_create = 0; Meaning that it now finds tarballs with all the expected file name extensions, unstable-amd64.tar.xz in my case. However, my .sbuildrc must still contain: $distribution = ‘unstable’; Otherwise, sbuild does not find my tarball and instead creates a temporary one. E: Chroot for distribution UNRELEASED, architecture amd64 not found I: Applied base distribution name mangle rule s/(?^:^(experimental|rc-buggy| UNRELEASED)$)/unstable/ turning "UNRELEASED" into "unstable" I: Creating chroot on-demand by running: mmdebstrap --variant=buildd --arch=amd64 --skip=output/mknod --format=tar unstable - I: Unpacking tarball from STDIN to /tmp/tmp.sbuild.0iBTcoF78_... I: automatically chosen mode: unshare I: chroot architecture amd64 is equal to the host's architecture I: finding correct signed-by value... I: using /tmp/mmdebstrap.qJ9Id7i6WM as tempdir I: skipping output/mknod as requested for ./dev/console I: skipping output/mknod as requested for ./dev/full I: skipping output/mknod as requested for ./dev/null I: skipping output/mknod as requested for ./dev/ptmx I: skipping output/mknod as requested for ./dev/random I: skipping output/mknod as requested for ./dev/tty I: skipping output/mknod as requested for ./dev/urandom I: skipping output/mknod as requested for ./dev/zero I: running apt-get update... I: downloading packages with apt... I: extracting archives... I: installing essential packages... I: installing remaining packages inside the chroot... I: cleaning package lists and apt cache... I: creating tarball... I: done I: removing tempdir /tmp/mmdebstrap.qJ9Id7i6WM... I: success in 34.4913 seconds I: The chroot directory at /tmp/tmp.sbuild.0iBTcoF78_ will be removed at the end of the build I: To avoid creating a new chroot from scratch every time, either: I: - place a chroot tarball at /home/soren/.cache/sbuild/UNRELEASED-amd64.tar and update it manually, for example by running: mmdebstrap --variant=buildd -- arch=amd64 --skip=output/mknod --format=tar unstable /home/soren/.cache/ sbuild/UNRELEASED-amd64.tar I: - or let sbuild take care of this via the setting UNSHARE_MMDEBSTRAP_KEEP_TARBALL by adding '$unshare_mmdebstrap_keep_tarball = 1;' to your ~/.config/sbuild/config.pl. I: - or completely disable this behaviour via the setting UNSHARE_MMDEBSTRAP_AUTO_CREATE by adding '$unshare_mmdebstrap_auto_create = 0;' to your ~/.config/sbuild/config.pl. I: Refer to UNSHARE_MMDEBSTRAP_KEEP_TARBALL in sbuild.conf(5) for more information -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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