Re: [PATCH 1/1] apt: allow package downgrades in sbuild chroots

["'Jan Kiszka' via isar-users" <isar-users@googlegroups.com>]

On 13.05.25 09:02, 'Felix Moessbauer' via isar-users wrote:
> The sbuild chroots carry many packages needed for the build environment.
> This sometimes requires packages from bootstrapping to be downgraded so
> that the dependencies can be resolved.
> 
> An example is the liblzma5 which currently (1st of May 2025) needs to be
> downgraded on Debian bookworm.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot.inc | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot.inc
> index 6478d3a6..05424f54 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/sbuild-chroot/sbuild-chroot.inc
> @@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND:remove = "rootfs_cleanup_isar_apt"
>  # Do not cleanup base-apt
>  ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND:remove = "rootfs_cleanup_base_apt"
>  
> +# Allow downgrades of packages from bootstrap
> +ROOTFS_APT_ARGS += "--allow-downgrades"
> +

We already have partial downgrade permission for isar-apt and even for
the devshell. We should check if those are then still relevant.

But we also need to check again about other, maybe less desirable side
effects of this change...

Jan

>  DEPLOY_SCHROOT = "${@d.getVar('SCHROOT_' + d.getVar('SBUILD_VARIANT').upper() + '_DIR')}${SBUILD_SCHROOT_SUFFIX}"
>  
>  do_sbuildchroot_deploy[dirs] = "${DEPLOY_DIR}/schroot-${SBUILD_VARIANT}"


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