Re: Maintaining personal backports
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:47:00PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > I am looking to Wikify this, with full procedure on how to set up the
> > mirror, the pbuilder/cowbuilder build environment and finally building
> > packages.
>
> Please consider wiki.debian.org as place.
That is my intention.
> > But before that, I'd appreciate it if others can suggest
> > workarounds for the following kludges:
>
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > if [ ! -n "$1" ];
> > then
> > echo "Usage: `basename $0` <sid_package>"
> > exit 1;
> > fi
> >
> > sudo cowbuilder --configfile ~/.pbuilderrc-lenny --build $(basename "$FILE")
>
> If you use pbuilder, why you need to force such thing.
Sorry, but what am I forcing? It is not clear to me what you refer to here.
> If I were you and using pbuilder, I edit tar.gz file contents. Make
> chroot image have /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to local private
> archive aceslinc too. (I guess you can do the same with cowbuilder.
Oh, that is quite appropriate! Thanks for that!
BTW, aceslinc == localhost.
> > dupload -t aceslinc /var/cache/pbuilder/result/$(basename "${FILE%.dsc}")_amd64.changes
>
> If you get the whole thing running, it will e nice article for wiki.
It does run for me now. I'll add your cleanups and ideas and Wikify it
this weekend.
Thanks!
Kumar
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