Question
I'm attempting to run "sudo pbuilder create" however, when retrieving packages a different one always seems to time out and fail causing the whole process. I've skimmed the man page, and I can't find any flags to set pbuilder such that it would retry several times to retrieve a failed package. Is this possible or do I have to just keep running "sudo pbuilder create" and hope for the best to get my build environment working?
Solution
I am not aware of an option to override this. A brute-force approach I have used in the past in order to build my packages is to untar the file base.tgz, chroot into it and then remove the apt caches by hand. I would then update, re-tar the base.tgz file. Not elegant, but it worked.
OTHER TIPS
You can create ~/.pbuilderrc and indicate different debian mirror for distribution.
Check config example.