Hi *, I’ve just written a hookscript for pbuilder which makes the locally cached files available during a package build. Just chmod +x it, drop it into the --hookdir, and you’re set¹².
Usage scenario here is mostly debian-ports: when building packages that depend on each other, you no longer have to wait until the first package is Installed until you can build the second package³. It also makes older packages, e.g. arch:all ones, available so that you can, with some APT pinning⁴, build packages against others that have temporarily become uninstallable in unstable, e.g. to break build dependency cycles. Do make sure to not put untrusted packages into the /var/cache/pbuilder/aptcache directory⁵. It does protocol all made-available packages into the pbuilder log, just so people inspecting it later can know. https://www.mirbsd.org/cvs.cgi/contrib/hosted/tg/deb/hookdir/D00local?rev=HEAD This script will be updated this week or the next, or so, because Guillem has just committed a change to dpkg that allows dpkg-scanpackages to skip generating the SHA-1 and SHA-256 hashes for the packages, so this will take only a third of the time on our slow m68k machines. (Thanks!) ① You can also share the package cache with your live system: • rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives • ln -s /var/cache/pbuilder/aptcache /var/cache/apt/archives • echo 'Dir::Cache::Archives "/var/cache/pbuilder/aptcache";' \ >>/etc/apt/apt.conf The first two are not strictly necessary, but help e.g. scripts or people who assume the default location. Trust me. Oh, and be careful of an “apt-get clean” afterwards… ② I forgot what I wanted to write in this footnote. Maybe later… ③ Or when you upload several packages that depend on previous ones, especially when they are NEW. ④ Example paragraph (we do have current glib-networking by now): Package: glib-networking-common Pin: version 2.36.1-2~m68k.1 Pin-Priority: 1001 ⑤ Do distinguish between /var/cache/pbuilder/aptcache-debian and /var/cache/pbuilder/aptcache-ubuntu when you use my cool https://www.mirbsd.org/cvs.cgi/contrib/hosted/tg/deb/pbuilderrc?rev=HEAD Have fun, //mirabilos -- <Uli> Du hast Recht. <Uli> Du hast Recht! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.11.1409241440030.13...@tglase.lan.tarent.de
