Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docker: Use a stable snapshot for Debian Sid

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 11/01 19:37, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> The Debian Sid repository is not garanteed to be stable, as his
> 'unstable' name suggest :)
> To allow quick testing, packages are pushed various time a day,
> which my be annoying when trying to use it for stable development
> (which is not recommended, but Sid provides edge packages we use
> for testing).
> 
> Debian provides repositories snapshots which are suitable for our
> use. Pick a recent date that works. When required, update to newer
> releases will be easy.
> 
> This fixes current issues with this image:
> 
>   $ make docker-image-debian-sid
>   [...]
>   The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>    build-essential : Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.11) but it is not going to be installed
>    git : Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed
>          Depends: liberror-perl but it is not going to be installed
>    pkg-config : Depends: libdpkg-perl but it is not going to be installed
>    texinfo : Depends: perl (>= 5.26.2-6) but it is not going to be installed
>              Depends: libtext-unidecode-perl but it is not going to be installed
>              Depends: libxml-libxml-perl but it is not going to be installed
>   E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-sid.docker | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-sid.docker b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-sid.docker
> index 9a3d168705..4e4cda0ba5 100644
> --- a/tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-sid.docker
> +++ b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-sid.docker
> @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
>  
>  FROM debian:sid-slim
>  
> +# Use a snapshot known to work (see http://snapshot.debian.org/#Usage)
> +ENV DEBIAN_SNAPSHOT_DATE "20181030"
> +RUN sed -i "s%^deb \(https\?://\)deb.debian.org/debian/\? \(.*\)%deb [check-valid-until=no] \1snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/${DEBIAN_SNAPSHOT_DATE} \2%" /etc/apt/sources.list
> +
>  # Duplicate deb line as deb-src
>  RUN cat /etc/apt/sources.list | sed "s/^deb\ /deb-src /" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
>  
> -- 
> 2.17.2
> 

Queued, thanks!

Fam