2011-10-01



The possible security problem in masqmail still  isn't  fixed  in
Debian stable and oldstable. In order to produce fixed packages I
set up pbuilder a second time, this time not on the local machine
but  on  a  remote server. It has a much better connection to the
package  mirror  and  more  computing  power,  both   being   the
bottlenecks for pbuilder. I also left cowbuilder out. It had made
the setup more complex (passing options through) and gained few.

Following the great pbuilder documentation, I added  these  lines
to the (global) pbuilderrc:

     if [ -n "${DIST}" ]; then
             BASETGZ="`dirname $BASETGZ`/$DIST-base.tgz"
             DISTRIBUTION="$DIST"
             BUILDRESULT="/var/cache/pbuilder/$DIST/result/"
             APTCACHE="/var/cache/pbuilder/$DIST/aptcache/"
     fi

Then I created and updated the chroots:

     # DIST=stable pbuilder create
     # DIST=stable pbuilder update

To create a package I used:

     $ DIST=stable pdebuild

from within the package directory.

/var/cache/pbuilder then features subdirectories for each distri-
bution you target for.


The build system is set up and I've already created results,  but
the work isn't finished yet.


btw: debdiff is a handy tool.


btw2: There's so much good documentation (I've seen a lot in  De-
bian recently), one only lacks the time to read it all.  ;-)



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>