2008/7/29 Richard Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am just getting started in Debian package building and I need to know if > this idea is valid or if there is a better way. > [...] > What do you use?
I find pbuilder easiest to work with. Since I am mostly running Testing, I have two setups, one for Sid and one for Backports. Here is a mini-howto for what to do. Create a ~/deb/unstable-pbuilderrc: DISTRIBUTION="sid" BASETGZ="$HOME/var/pbuilder/$DISTRIBUTION-base.tgz" BUILDPLACE="$HOME/var/pbuilder/$DISTRIBUTION" MIRRORSITE="http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian"; USEPROC="yes" USEDEVPTS="yes" USEDEVFS="no" BUILDRESULT="$HOME/var/presult" APTCACHE="/var/cache/apt/archives" APTCACHEHARDLINK="no" REMOVEPACKAGES="lilo grub" HOOKDIR="" export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" DEBEMAIL="Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" BUILDSOURCEROOTCMD="fakeroot" PBUILDERROOTCMD="sudo" DEBBUILDOPTS="" APTCONFDIR="$HOME/deb/apt.config" BUILDUSERID="1000" BINDMOUNTS="" DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS[0]='--variant=buildd' And create a ~/deb/backports-pbuilderrc: DISTRIBUTION="etch" BASETGZ="$HOME/var/pbuilder/backports-base.tgz" BUILDPLACE="$HOME/var/pbuilder/backports" MIRRORSITE="http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian"; OTHERMIRROR="deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ $DISTRIBUTION-backports main" USEPROC="yes" USEDEVPTS="yes" USEDEVFS="no" BUILDRESULT="$HOME/var/presult" APTCACHE="/var/cache/apt/archives" APTCACHEHARDLINK="no" REMOVEPACKAGES="lilo grub" HOOKDIR="" export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" DEBEMAIL="Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" BUILDSOURCEROOTCMD="fakeroot" PBUILDERROOTCMD="sudo" DEBBUILDOPTS="" APTCONFDIR="$HOME/deb/apt.config" BUILDUSERID="1000" BINDMOUNTS="" DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS[0]='--variant=buildd' To stop apt complaining, create an ~/deb/apt.config/apt.conf.d/allow-unauthenticated: APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated 1; To give pbuilder a place to store its stuff, do mkdir -p ~/var/presults ~/var/pbuilder To create the environments, do sudo pbuilder create --configfile ~/deb/unstable-pbuilderrc sudo pbuilder create --configfile ~/deb/backports-pbuilderrc To build a new package, in your package directory (eg. ~/deb/libfoo/libfoo-2.13/) you then just do pdebuild --configfile ~/deb/unstable-pbuilderrc or to build a backport, use the -sa -v options: pdebuild --configfile ~/deb/backports-pbuilderrc --debbuildopts '-sa -v2.12-1' To manually install dependencies in the environment, you can do sudo pbuilder login --configfile ~/deb/backports-pbuilderrc and then manually copy (source) packages into the chroot. To tweak things in the environment in general, you can do sudo pbuilder login --save-after-exec --configfile ~/deb/unstable-pbuilderrc To sponsor a package, use the -k option: pdebuild --configfile ~/deb/unstable-pbuilderrc --debbuildopts '-kFE63E8A1' Remember to update the environments before building: sudo /usr/sbin/pbuilder update --configfile ~/deb/unstable-pbuilderrc The resulting packages are placed in ~/var/presults, where you need to sign them with debsign, which works best with GPG Agent running, so put something like this in your .xsession file: if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info && \ kill -0 `cut -d: -f 2 $HOME/.gpg-agent-info` 2>/dev/null; then GPG_AGENT_INFO=`cat $HOME/.gpg-agent-info` export GPG_AGENT_INFO else eval `gpg-agent --daemon` echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO >$HOME/.gpg-agent-info fi HTH, -- Jens Peter Secher. _DD6A 05B0 174E BFB2 D4D9 B52E 0EE5 978A FE63 E8A1 jpsecher gmail com_. A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion. Q. Why is top posting bad? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
