Re: pbuilder on sarge

[Thibaut Paumard <paumard@users.sourceforge.net>]

Le dimanche 09 juillet 2006 à 19:56 +0100, Michael Stevens a écrit :
> Hi.
> 
> I've got a new package which seems to be all good to me so far. The
> only problem is that I've built it on sarge, so now I want to get it
> updated and building against sid.
> 
> How do I setup pbuilder to manage this? when I try to just do
> 'pbuilder create', it gives the error:
> 
> E: Couldn't download slang1a-utf8
> pbuilder: debootstrap failed

Use pbuilder and cdebootstrap from http://www.backports.org/ .

To do that, put:
 deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main
in your /etc/apt/sources.list .

Then add the following to /etc/apt/preferences :

Package: *
8<--------------------------------
Pin: release a=sarge-backports 
Pin-Priority: 200

Package: cdebootstrap
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: pbuilder
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

8<---------------------------------


Then run 
apt-get update
apt-get install pbuilder cdeboostrap

(see http://www.backports.org/instructions.html )

Cheers, Thibaut.