Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible Control: severity -1 normal > On 5 Dec 2025, at 07:52, Michael Prokop <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > * Jessica Clarke [Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 03:25:02PM +0000]: >> On 28 Feb 2023, at 19:36, Henning <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Building a docker image with pbuilder installed with debconf >>> frontend non-interactive > [...] >>> At least in the bookworm docker image, the apt sources are >>> configured via /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources file, and >>> I assume its the same for systems installed "normally" with the >>> debian installer. >>> >>> But pbuilder apparently relies on the "traditional" >>> /etc/apt/sources.list file, and otrherwise keeps looping through >>> an interactive question for the user to input a default mirror >>> manually. >>> >>> * What outcome did you expect instead? >>> I expect that pbuilder does not resort to interactive user input >>> when DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive and some default is used, >>> and the pbuilder instal script do not rely on a file that cannot >>> be guranteed to exist. > >> So it’s supposed to be detecting the non-interactive case (and 30 is >> the documented value for that), providing a default. Yes, we should do >> better in the deb822 cases (note that the script *does* check >> sources.list.d, but only for *.list, which are in the same format as >> sources.list itself), and maybe there’s a way we can extract that >> information out of apt itself (e.g. something like apt-cache policy >> dpkg, but not quite), but the above code should still be making that >> matter less. I’ll have to go test this myself, see if I can reproduce >> it, and figure out why it’s not working. > > I can't reproduce the problem: > > | root@dd10c07bc0f9:/# DEBIAN_FRONTEND='noninteractive' apt install pbuilder > --no-install-recommends > | [...] > | Preconfiguring packages ... > | Configuring pbuilder > | -------------------- > | > | Default mirror not found > | > | Mirror information detection failed and the user provided no mirror > | information. > | > | Please enter valid mirror information. > | > | Selecting previously unselected package bzip2. > | (Reading database ... 4935 files and directories currently > | installed.) > | [...] > | root@dd10c07bc0f9:/# grep '^MIRROR' /etc/pbuilderrc > | MIRRORSITE=http://deb.debian.org/debian > > Same behavior for both bookworm + trixie.
I finally tested it myself and with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive it works as expected, falling back on deb.debian.org <http://deb.debian.org/>, just as you say. > But I agree that we should add support for deb822. > AFAIK there sadly is no nice interface to query apt for its > repositories, but this seems to work for me: > > https://salsa.debian.org/pbuilder-team/pbuilder/-/merge_requests/41 Taking a look at this properly now. Sorry for such a long delay, I had hoped to get to it over the holidays but didn’t manage to. Jessica
