Re: debian library generation issue

[Bhavani Shankar R <bhavi@ubuntu.com>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Zvi Dubitzky <DUBI@il.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While exercising  a  library generation with libvirt  using debian pbuider
> I see no error  mesage except the following
>
> ...
> dh_shlibdeps
> dh_gencontrol
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
> dh_md5sums
> dh_builddeb
> dpkg-deb: building package `libvirt-dev' in
> `../libvirt-dev_0.6.1-1_i386.deb'.
> dpkg-deb: building package `libvirt' in `../libvirt_0.6.1-1_i386.deb'.
> ...
>
> So the library is generated but it contains no real /usr/lib  content as
> the "dpkg -c" shows  below.
> No compile errors is seen an I can see the .so..and .a  build in the
> fakeroot environment
> Does the above indicate about the reason and how ?
>
> dubi@lnx-phenix1:~/libvirt/libvirt-0.6.1$ sudo dpkg -c
> /var/cache/pbuilder/result/libvirt-bin_0.6.1-1_i386.deb
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-08-09 15:36 ./
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-08-09 15:36 ./usr/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-08-09 15:36 ./usr/share/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-08-09 15:36 ./usr/share/doc/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-08-09 15:36
> ./usr/share/doc/libvirt-bin/
> -rw-r--r-- root/root    150746 2009-03-04 08:13
> ./usr/share/doc/libvirt-bin/changelog.gz
> -rw-r--r-- root/root       658 2010-08-09 15:33
> ./usr/share/doc/libvirt-bin/copyright
> -rw-r--r-- root/root       176 2010-08-09 15:33
> ./usr/share/doc/libvirt-bin/changelog.Debian.gz
>
>
> The production .deb packages are located finally in
> /var/cache/pbuilder/result
> Is it ok ?
>
> Any idea ?
>


Hello

AFAIK that warning means that the helper while building the package
has not inserted any deps in those substitution fields and as far as
the package builds it shouldn't be much of a problem I think

secondly from pbuilder manpage:

"  --buildresult [location to put build result]
              Specifies the location the build result gets into  after  build‐
              ing.   The  deb  files  and  other files that have resulted from
              build is copied there.  Note that the default value is  not  the
              current     directory,     or    ..     but    another    place,
              /var/cache/pbuilder/result This is to avoid overwriting  already
              existing deb files with the newly generated ones. "

I hope that helps

regards



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