[Bug 331806] Re: better handling of building for ubuntu and debian on the same host

[Thorsten Glaser]

You might like to use the following with cowbuilder for your purpose:

https://www.mirbsd.org/cvs.cgi/contrib/hosted/tg/deb/pbuilderrc?rev=HEAD

This can be used on an amd64 host (we have Debian lenny) to build for
amd64 and i386, all Debian releases from sarge (i386-only) and etch
(i386/amd64) onwards, and most (in theory all, but didn’t try) *buntu
releases, including backports handling.

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Title:
  better handling of building for ubuntu and debian on the same host

Status in “pbuilder” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: pbuilder

  $ dpkg -l pbuilder
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name                      Version                   Description
  +++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
  ii  pbuilder                  0.183ubuntu1~hardy1       personal package builder for Debian packages

  $ pbuilder-dist sid create
  [...]
  I: Configuring debian-archive-keyring...
  I: Configuring apt...
  I: Configuring libept0...
  I: Configuring apt-utils...
  I: Configuring aptitude...
  I: Configuring tasksel-data...
  I: Configuring tasksel...
  I: Base system installed successfully.
   -> debootstrap finished
   -> copying local configuration
    -> Installing apt-lines
  Refreshing the base.tgz
   -> upgrading packages
   -> mounting /proc filesystem
   -> mounting /dev/pts filesystem
   -> installing dummy policy-rc.d
  Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org sid Release.gpg [189B]
  Hit http://ftp.debian.org sid Release
  Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release.gpg
  Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release [27.6kB]
  Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages [5170B]
  Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages/DiffIndex [2038B]
  Fetched 35.0kB in 32s (1090B/s)
  W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/dists/sid/Release  Unable to find expected entry  restricted/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
   
  E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
   -> Aborting with an error
   -> unmounting dev/pts filesystem
   -> unmounting proc filesystem
   -> cleaning the build env
      -> removing directory /usr/src/pbuilder/build//27011 and its subdirectories

  The reason is simply that I added Ubuntu specific components in
  pbuilderrc which threw pbuilder off when trying to build for sid.

  $ grep ^COMPO /etc/pbuilderrc
  COMPONENTS="main restricted universe multiverse"

  Maybe it would be possible to change pbuilder configuration in such a
  way that it is possible to specify components on the command line or
  better yet set COMPONENTS for Debian and Ubuntu differently.

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