How to run pdebuild?

["Neil L. Roeth" <neil@occamsrazor.net>]

I suppose you could just su first, then run pbuilder build or pdebuild.  Maybe
someone else can help you with the way you are trying to do it, but here's
what I did instead.  I installed sudo, which pbuilder uses by default for
pbuilderroot, and added the following line to /etc/sudoers:

neil  ALL=(ALL) /usr/sbin/pbuilder

(neil is the account I use to build Debian packages).  I set the directories
where I want the building to occur in /etc/pbuilderrc.  Then, I just cd to the
main directory of the package source code, and execute "pdebuild" with no
arguments.  That's it.


On Apr  1, Shaul Karl (shaulka@bezeqint.net) wrote:
 >   I fail to get the appropriate command line for pdebuild. In
 > particular, I am trying to use su for --pbuilderroot but do it in
 > a wrong manner. Help will be appreciated. Some examples that don't work:
 > 
 >     $ pdebuild --buildresult ../ --pbuilderroot su -- --basetgz
 >     /var/cache/pbuilder/woody/base.tgz --debbuildopts 'us uc' --logfile
 >     /var/cache/pbuilder/woody/log/nut-1.2.2pre3.pdebuild
 > 
 >   yields:
 >   
 >     su: unrecognized option `--basetgz'
 > 
 >   So I have tried
 > 
 >     $ pdebuild --buildresult ../ --pbuilderroot su - root -- --basetgz
 >     /var/cache/pbuilder/woody/base.tgz --debbuildopts 'us uc' --logfile
 >     /var/cache/pbuilder/woody/log/nut-1.2.2pre3.pdebuild
 > 
 >   and got:
 > 
 >   Unknown id: pbuilder
 >   I Guess that this one was because my /etc/pbuilderrc has
 >   BUILDUSERNAME=pbuilder and pbuilder isn't in /etc/passwd.
 > 
 > -- 
 > 
 >     Shaul Karl, shaulka@bezeqint.n e t
 > 
 > 
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Neil L. Roeth