Re: [PATCH] sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host: enable apt-utils only for bookworm

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Sat, 22 Jul 2023 08:00:29 +0530
schrieb Srinuvasan Arjunan <srinuvasan_a@mentor.com>:

> From: Srinuvasan A <srinuvasan.a@siemens.com>
> 
> In downstream layer we try to cross-building packages for bullseye,
> but it throws the below error:
> 
> | Reading package lists...
> | Building dependency tree...
> | Package apt-utils is not available, but is referred to by another
> package. | This may mean that the package is missing, has been
> obsoleted, or | is only available from another source
> | However the following packages replace it:
> |   apt:armhf apt
> |
> | E: Package 'apt-utils' has no installation candidate
> | WARNING: exit code 100 from a shell command.
> 
> I hope the APT resolver (/usr/lib/apt/solvers/apt) only demands for
> bookworm, hence it's enabled based on BASE_DISTRO_CODENAME.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srinuvasan A <srinuvasan.a@siemens.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git
> a/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb
> b/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb index
> 255d693..9738a1c 100644 ---
> a/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb +++
> b/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb @@ -16,7
> +16,7 @@ ROOTFS_BASE_DISTRO = "${HOST_BASE_DISTRO}"
> SBUILD_CHROOT_PREINSTALL ?= " \ ${SBUILD_CHROOT_PREINSTALL_COMMON} \
> crossbuild-essential-${DISTRO_ARCH} \
> -    apt-utils \
> +    ${@ 'apt-utils' if d.getVar('BASE_DISTRO_CODENAME') ==
> 'bookworm' else ''} \ "

This is wrong because you want to say >= bookworm and all affected
ubuntus and raspbians. If distro names need to be listed rather list
the old ones currently supported in isar. But a list is just hard to
maintain, even if it has to shrink over time instead of grow.

Henning

>  
>  SBUILD_CHROOT_PREINSTALL:riscv64 ?= " \