Re: [PATCH] dpkg: Remove all dummy packages after sbuild package build

["'MOESSBAUER, Felix' via isar-users" <isar-users@googlegroups.com>]

On Wed, 2026-02-04 at 13:49 +0100, 'Clara Kowalsky' via isar-users
wrote:
> Since sbuild commit c8fad160b366 ("Use dpkg-buildtree to figure out if
> fakeroot is required")[1], the fakeroot installation is done in a
> separate build step after the build dependencies installation. For
> fakeroot, sbuild creates now a separate dummy package called
> sbuild-build-depends-fakeroot-dummy next to
> sbuild-build-depends-main-dummy.
> This sbuild commit was introduced with sbuild version 0.88.2. While
> Debian bookworm uses 0.85.0, trixie updated to 0.89.3.
> 
> When building packages with Isar on a trixie host (e.g., by using
> kas-isar:5.1) that have Rules-Requires!=no set (so fakeroot is used),
> the fakeroot dummy package was left in the downloads directory, which
> caused an issue when running an offline build afterwards, as the
> do_cache task parses all packages in the downloads directory and
> issued:
> "No section given for 'sbuild-build-depends-fakeroot-dummy', skipping.
> There have been errors!"
> 
> With this change, all dummy packages created by sbuild for the build
> dependencies installation are removed afterwards.

Good catch!

Reviewed-by: Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>

Felix

> 
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/sbuild/-/commit/c8fad160b3669967bdd2714f34589ace6b37b4b6
> 
> Signed-off-by: Clara Kowalsky <clara.kowalsky@siemens.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes-recipe/dpkg.bbclass | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/dpkg.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/dpkg.bbclass
> index 4a3deec2..8bb5adeb 100644
> --- a/meta/classes-recipe/dpkg.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes-recipe/dpkg.bbclass
> @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ dpkg_runbuild() {
>          --chroot-setup-commands="mkdir -p ${deb_dir}" \
>          --chroot-setup-commands="find ${ext_deb_dir} -maxdepth 1 -name '*.deb' -exec ln -t ${deb_dir}/ -sf {} +" \
>          --chroot-setup-commands="apt-get update -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=\"sources.list.d/isar-apt.list\" -o Dir::Etc::SourceParts=\"-\" -o APT::Get::List-Cleanup=\"0\"" \
> -        --finished-build-commands="rm -f ${deb_dir}/sbuild-build-depends-main-dummy_*.deb" \
> +        --finished-build-commands="rm -f ${deb_dir}/sbuild-build-depends-*-dummy_*.deb" \
>          --finished-build-commands="find ${deb_dir} -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.deb' -print -exec cp ${CP_FLAGS} -t ${ext_deb_dir}/ {} +" \
>          --finished-build-commands="cp /var/log/dpkg.log ${ext_root}/dpkg_partial.log" \
>          --build-path="" --build-dir=${WORKDIR} --dist="${DEBDISTRONAME}" ${DSC_FILE}
> -- 
> 2.52.0
> 
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