Hi Marc, On Mo, 2015-08-31 at 21:09 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Source: mini-buildd > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > I have just noticed that a build chroot does not have aptitude > installed. If the aptitude resolver is used, this results in aptitude > being installed over and over for every build process. > > Is this intentional? If not, aptitude should be part of a build chroot > that is intended to be used with the aptitude resolver.
that actually is sort of "intentional"; more precisely, all chroots are generic, and may potentially be used by any mini-buildd repository -- only the build requests determine what resolver to be used. Maybe just having aptitude pre-installed generally actually brings more benefits than harm -- in that case, however, I would like to see 'debootstrap --varinat=buildd' bringing this in. What mini-buildd *could* do is some instance-global "chroot_extra_packages" option, so the administrator may override debootstrap if he wants to. Keep this open for that? HtH! S
