Re: [PATCH] sbuild: fix cross-building packages on bookworm host

[Uladzimir Bely <ubely@ilbers.de>]

On Wed, 2023-06-07 at 07:36 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 07.06.23 06:46, Uladzimir Bely wrote:
> > Bookworm uses more version of sbuild that requires from target
> > rootfs
> 
> s/more/a newer/
> 

Oh, sorry, I missed the word "recent". Will be fixed during merge (or
in v2).

> > to include apt resolver (/usr/lib/apt/solvers/apt).
> > 
> > This is automatically provided by 'bookworm' target, but not by
> > older
> > 'buster' or 'bullseye' that don't strictly depend on apt-utils
> > package
> > that provides this solver.
> > 
> > Add `apt-utils` to host sbuild chroot in order to fix build issues.
> > 
> > See https://groups.google.com/g/isar-users/c/OIIp6qF3C8I for
> > details.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Uladzimir Bely <ubely@ilbers.de>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-
> > host.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb
> > index d2e23d56..255d6937 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot-host.bb
> > @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ ROOTFS_BASE_DISTRO = "${HOST_BASE_DISTRO}"
> >  SBUILD_CHROOT_PREINSTALL ?= " \
> >      ${SBUILD_CHROOT_PREINSTALL_COMMON} \
> >      crossbuild-essential-${DISTRO_ARCH} \
> > +    apt-utils \
> >      "
> >  
> >  SBUILD_CHROOT_PREINSTALL:riscv64 ?= " \
> 
> Thanks, makes sense to me now.
> 
> From kas perspective, there is still the catch now that we will
> require
> users of the upcoming bookworm-based build container to update their
> isar past this patch or carry it locally. Not much we can do about
> that
> anymore, though. The key value of bookworm as host is dpkg can handle
> zstd which improves interaction with the Ubuntu universe.
> 
> Jan
>