Cross-building for older releases on trixie broken?

[Jan Kiszka]

Hi,

for some days, I'm playing with a trixie-based kas container (currently
available via kas-isar:next from upstream), and I it seems I ran into an
issue that might be isar-related: Building e.g. qemu-arm64:bookworm with
that container fails:

| Setup apt archive
| -----------------
|
| Merged Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), build-essential:amd64,
crossbuild-essential-arm64:amd64, apt-utils:amd64, libc-dev:arm64,
libstdc++-dev:arm64
| Filtered Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
build-essential:amd64, crossbuild-essential-arm64:amd64,
apt-utils:amd64, libc-dev:arm64, libstdc++-dev:arm64
| dpkg-deb: building package 'sbuild-build-depends-main-dummy' in
'/build/sshd-regen-keys-QAjoa6/resolver-ruuPrM/apt_archive/sbuild-build-depends-main-dummy.deb'.
| Ign:1 copy:/build/sshd-regen-keys-QAjoa6/resolver-ruuPrM/apt_archive
./ InRelease
| Get:2 copy:/build/sshd-regen-keys-QAjoa6/resolver-ruuPrM/apt_archive
./ Release [609 B]
| Ign:3 copy:/build/sshd-regen-keys-QAjoa6/resolver-ruuPrM/apt_archive
./ Release.gpg
| Get:4 copy:/build/sshd-regen-keys-QAjoa6/resolver-ruuPrM/apt_archive
./ Sources [690 B]
| Get:5 copy:/build/sshd-regen-keys-QAjoa6/resolver-ruuPrM/apt_archive
./ Packages [733 B]
| Fetched 2032 B in 0s (0 B/s)
| Reading package lists...
| Reading package lists...
|
| Install main build dependencies (apt-based resolver)
| ----------------------------------------------------
|
| Installing build dependencies
| Reading package lists...
| Building dependency tree...
| Reading state information...
| E: Unable to locate package sbuild-build-depends-main-dummy
| apt-get failed.
| E: Package installation failed
| Not removing build depends: cloned chroot in use
| Reading package lists...
| Building dependency tree...
| Reading state information...
| E: Unable to locate package sbuild-build-depends-main-dummy
| apt-get failed.
|

That was part of the sshd-regen-keys package build, but all package seem
to fail this way.

I suspect we are improperly using the host dpkg tooling here, rather
than that from the target distro (see other recent discussions we had
here)...

Jan

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[Uladzimir Bely]

Hello, Jan.

I took a quick look at this. It seems cross-building is broken for
trixie host only for bookworm target. Buster, bullseye and trixie
targets looks OK.

The reason is still not clear for me - some failure happens with
apt/dependencies, even before dpkg-buildpackage is called.

Will try to debug.


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Best regards,
Uladzimir.

[Jan Kiszka]

Hmm, maybe we are lucky with the other ones, but the same issue applies
in principle.

> The reason is still not clear for me - some failure happens with
> apt/dependencies, even before dpkg-buildpackage is called.
>
> Will try to debug.
>

Thanks in advance!