On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 15:52, Roberto A. Foglietta <
roberto.foglietta@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 08:36, Uladzimir Bely <ubely@ilbers.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> I got time to get back to this patches and checked this moment. And it
>> really
>> does not work as I expected.
>>
>> Original patch includes the following:
>>
>> -        --chroot-setup-commands="cp -n --no-preserve=owner
>> ${ext_deb_dir}/
>> *.deb -t ${deb_dir}/ || :" \
>> +        --chroot-setup-commands="ln -Pf ${ext_deb_dir}/*.deb -t
>> ${deb_dir}/
>> 2>/dev/null || :" \
>>
>> This results to to failing "ReproTest" in CI with the following error
>> (for
>> libhello, for example):
>>
>> sbuild-build-depends-dose3-dummy:armhf : Depends: dose-distcheck:amd64
>> but it
>> is not installable
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>
>> To debug it, I removed `2>/dev/null` and found, that hardlinks simply
>> don't
>> work and the following errors are now seen earlier:
>>
>> ln: failed to create hard link
>> '/var/cache/apt/archives/adduser_3.118_all.deb'
>> => '/home/builder/libhello/rootfs/var/cache/apt/archives/
>> adduser_3.118_all.deb': Invalid cross-device link
>> ... #tons of similar errors...
>> ln: failed to create hard link '/var/cache/apt/archives/
>> zlib1g_1%3a1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2_mipsel.deb' => '/home/builder/libhello/
>> rootfs/var/cache/apt/archives/zlib1g_1%3a1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2_mipsel.deb':
>>
>> Invalid cross-device link
>>
>> I: Finished running 'ln -Pf /home/builder/libhello/rootfs/var/cache/apt/
>> archives/*.deb -t /var/cache/apt/archives/ || :'.
>>
>> So, it works for network builds (when missing packages always can be
>> downloaded by apt), but it fails for local builds from apt-cache (when,
>> at
>> first network build, sbuild dependencies are simply not exported to
>> download
>> directory due to non-working hardlinks, plus with hidden stderr)
>>
>

Yes, I confirm that it is possible to do sbuild without using neither cp
nor ln, using an elegant solution.

So, whatever the problem was - it is not a problem anymore.

Best, R-