Re: Build-dependencies of backports, and searching the list archive is broken

["Uwe A. P. Würdinger" <wuerdinger@highspeed-firewall.de>]

Frank Küster schrieb:
> "Uwe A. P. Würdinger" <wuerdinger@highspeed-firewall.de> wrote:
>
> > Frank Küster schrieb:
> > > Hi,
> > [-snip-]
> >
> > > I'm using pbuilder, and I really do *not* want to log into a sarge
> > > pbuilder chroot and install the needed packages from bpo manually before
> > > building the package.
> > >
> > > So what should I do?
> > Have a look at
> > http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/pbuilder_backports/introduction.html
>
> Hm, this is strange:
>
> ,---- http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/pbuilder_backports/pbuilderbuild.html#pbuilderhook
> | # cat >> /etc/pbuilder/D01apt-ftparchive
> | 
> | #!/bin/sh
> | 
> | # We want this to be up to date for _every_ run for magic to happen!
> | 
> | ( cd /var/cache/pbuilder/result ;
> |   apt-ftparchive packages . > /var/cache/pbuilder/result/Packages
> | )
> | 
> [...]
> | cat<<EOF >/etc/apt/preferences
> | Package: *
> | Pin: release o=pbuilder
> | Pin-Priority: 701
> | 
> `----
>
> Now where is this hook script executed?  man pbuilder (on sarge) doesn't
> tell me anything, but looking at the snippet above is even more
> confusing.  The first action (apt-ftparchive) must happen outside the
> chroot.  But the writing of /etc/apt/preferences must happen *inside* to
> have any effect (and of course it must not be run outside unless I want
> to screw up my setup...).
>
> Can anybody enligthen me?

Well as far as I can tell ther's a little error on the site.
I built an environment based on that documentation 2 weeks ago and that 
hook script is executed for D an F


Anyway when I get some time I'm ona extend that steup with lvm snapshots 
 and build
something that in paralel triggers builds for backports, sid ubuntu 
current and ubunto dev

> Regards, Frank

greets Uwe
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