Re: pbuilder on sarge

2006-07-10 Thread Thibaut Paumard
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

Re: pbuilder on sarge

2006-07-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:54:43AM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: 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

Re: pbuilder on sarge

2006-07-10 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le lundi 10 juillet 2006 à 13:23 +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : [...] Then add the following to /etc/apt/preferences : [...] Package: cdebootstrap Pin: release a=sarge-backports Pin-Priority: 999 [...] uhm, why? The whole point of setting the priority at 200 when the default source

Re: pbuilder on sarge

2006-07-10 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006, Tyler MacDonald wrote: I only did this before because of the weird 'tar' problems in unstable... What's bad about building a package out of testing? This is not what the buildds of the other arches will do, and you will create a weird package on $arch-you-uploaded

Re: pbuilder on sarge

2006-07-10 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le lundi 10 juillet 2006 à 14:05 +0100, Michael Stevens a écrit : I think it'll be simplest for me to get a machine/vm running sid though, in the long term. I use a sid chroot to debug my packaging, but I try to always do my final build with pbuilder (to test the build-depends). So I would

Re: pbuilder on sarge

2006-07-09 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 I've got it working using '--distribution sarge', which is nice for checking the

Re: pbuilder on sarge

2006-07-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 12:31:34PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 I've got it

Re: pbuilder on sarge

2006-07-09 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found that it is easier to have machines running each distro you want to build against, but it shouldn't be neccessary. Try a --distribution etch though; something that builds under etch should still run under sid. And no, you should

Re: pbuilder on sarge

2006-07-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:21:18PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found that it is easier to have machines running each distro you want to build against, but it shouldn't be neccessary. Try a --distribution etch though; something that