On Mon 12. Jan 2026 at 19:27, Jessica Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 i don’t really understand the communication here but my 3 years/2 stable releases old bug can probably just be closed due outdatedness ;) >
