Re: Determining native or non-native package inside pbuilder

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

Ben Finney wrote:

> "Paul Wise" <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> 
>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
>> wrote:
>> > "Paul Wise" <pabs@debian.org> writes:
>> >
>> >> Usually this warning is produced because of an incorrectly named
>> >> orig.tar.gz - foo-1.2.orig.tar.gz (bad) vs foo_1.2.orig.tar.gz (good).
>> >> Perhaps that is the issue?
>> >
>> > Perhaps. But as far as I know, I have no control over the name of the
>> > tarball; it's generated automatically as part of 'pdebuild'.
>> >
>> > What do I need to do so that the correct tarball name (i.e. correctly
>> > indicating native or non-native) is used when I run 'pdebuild'?
>> 
>> A native tar.gz (rather than a non-native orig.tar.gz) is only
>> generated automatically when you don't have an orig.tar.gz file. I
>> suggest removing all tar.gz files below your source directory and
>> doing something like this in the source directory:
>> 
>> wget -O ../foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz http://foo.bar.com/foo-1.2.3.tar.gz
> 
> Should I expect it to be found at '../tarballs/foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz'?
> That's where 'dpkg-buildpackage' and other tools seem to expect it.

dpkg-buildpackage expects it to be in ../foo_*. svn-buildpackage is the only one
that uses ../tarballs AFAIK.

> 
> Is 'pbuilder' different in this regard? I'd rather not have the same
> file needing to appear at multiple places just to get the Debian tools
> working in concert.

pbuilder requires whatever you use as a builder. The default is
dpkg-buildpackage, so it will expect the orig in .. 

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  Felipe Sateler