> > Suppose I have two packages: A and B where B depends and build depends > > upon A. Neither package has been uploaded before. I can easily build > > A in pbuilder using pdebuild, but I can't do the same with B because B > > build depends upon A and A is not in the archive (thereby causing > > pbuilder-satisfydepends to fail). I have gotten around this by using > > pbuilder login, installing A's debs manually, running > > pbuilder-satisfydepends, and then run dpkg-buildpackage, but I'm > > wondering whether there is a better/usual way to do this. Any > > suggestions would be welcome. > > You can always add your own repository to the /etc/pbuilderrc. > If you don't have time to create your own, you can use mentors.debian.net, > that's what I do usually.
That's so obvious I completely overlooked it. :-) Thanks! It worked perfectly. I already have a local repository, so I just copied these packages into it, reran dpkg-scanpackages, and added it to /etc/pbuilderrc in OTHERMIRROR. It worked perfectly (after I ran pbuilder update --config-override). > > If B fails to build from source, is it > > the case that manual intervention is then required to get it to retry, > > or does this happen automatically? Thanks again for any > > clarification. > > That depends on the reason of not-building. What reasons do you expect? Only not waiting long enough between uploading A and B. Probably nothing to worry about. -- Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ql.org/q/
