Re: sbuild migration problem: how to jump into SBUILD_CHROOT with build dependencies installed

[Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>]

19.08.2022 11:25, Florian Bezdeka wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to update Isar to the latest next version in one of our
> downstream layers. This is the first version for this layer that uses
> sbuild.
>
> One of the recipes has the following dpkg_runbuild_prepend() defined:
>
> dpkg_runbuild_prepend() {
>      sudo chroot --userspec=$( id -u ):$( id -g ) ${BUILDCHROOT_DIR} \
>          sh -c "autoreconf -fi"
> }
>
> In the pre-sbuild times this task was executed *after* the build
> dependencies have been installed but *before* the dpkg_runbild task.
>
> With sbuild:
> - There is no "install build dependencies" task anymore
>    Installation of build dependencies is done by sbuild internally
> - The task is now executed *before* build dependencies are installed
> - I still could chroot into ${SBUILD_CHROOT}, but the build dependencies
>    will not be there
>
> Is there any possibility to jump into the ${SBUILD_CHROOT} after build
> dependencies are installed but before the actual packet build?
>
> Best regards,
> Florian
>
Hello Florian,

Correct way to implement this is to move autoreconf into debian/rules.