On Wed, 25 Dec 2024 at 07:21, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org> wrote:

If i set $apt_update=0 ... then --run-autopkgtest doesnt work,

If i add --skip=cleanup/apt/lists to mmdebstrap it all works again

This seems to all work as expected, can you describe how you think it should work and where the issue is?

ok if that's the intent then maybe this is just a lack of documentation.

I do not yet understand what there is to document. What were you trying to do?
I would've thought it's common knowledge that apt cannot install packages without having run "apt update" first?

If you always want to pass --skip=cleanup/apt/lists then maybe putting this into your ~/.sbuildrc can help:

$unshare_mmdebstrap_extra_args = $conf->_get('UNSHARE_MMDEBSTRAP_EXTRA_ARGS');
push @$unshare_mmdebstrap_extra_args, "*", ['--skip=cleanup/apt/lists'];

Ive submitted https://salsa.debian.org/debian/sbuild/-/merge_requests/124
to give the information that would have helped me understand this
better.

the man page stated that some repositories are "always updated" --- im
not sure if that is actually correct, at least, i didnt observe any
updating going on. but maybe i misunderstood. i left that part in
anyway: i think "the internal sbuild apt repository" is a bit cryptic,
so you might want to delete that or explain it

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