On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 02:27:13PM +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > severity 337015 normal > tags 337015 + patch > merge 337015 #390888 > retitle 337015 Support for pulling stuff from experimental > stop > > Hi folks, > > I just saw you already discussed supporting experimental in pbuilder; I > implemented some form of support in #390888. In short, it tries to > force the version of the build-dep for all available APT versions if > the default does not satisfy the build-deps. > > You might want to test the patch; I'm using it successfully since some > weeks now. It has a limitation in that it can't deal with Conflicts > easily, you might need to tweak your build-depends in this particular > case. Ideally, a full blown support would use some "problem solver", > such as aptitude's, and not shell logic based on apt commands. > > Sorry for the separate report and hence the noise. > > It might be worth it to still distribute the shell snippet which was > proposed in #337015 to manually install the build-deps as a workaround > for particular cases.
I got a stupid idea that may help solve this problem in a much simpler way: Create a fake dummy package containing the strict minimum to get apt do its job with the package dependencies. All that is needed, AFAIK, would be to create a DEBIAN/control file containing the following: --8<------------------------>8-- Package: package-name-build-depends Version: package-version Architecture: target-arch Maintainer: package maintainer Depends: All build-depends and build-indeps (depending on --binary-arch or --binary-all passed to satisfydepends, and filtered for target-arch) Conflicts: All build-conflicts and build-conflicts-indep (conditions same as above) Description: Build dependencies for the package-name source package --8<------------------------>8-- Then generate the pacakge with dpkg-deb -b, generate a local repository containing it with apt-ftparchive or similar tool, and install it with aptitude install package-name-build-depends. All appropriate build dependencies would get installed, if they can be resolved. Well, it would be even simpler if it were possible to give the list of build-deps and build-conflicts to aptitude directly... Mike
