Package: ia32-libs-tools Version: 20 Severity: normal Hi Goswin,
many thanks for this nice toolkit! /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/createi[-all] fails to do its job. I managed to track some problems down to 1. /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/fetch calls 'apt-get update' but fails. Running apt-get update manually works fine. I didn't look into details of this problem, just removed that line from .../fetch Is it really neccessary to call apt-get update from fetch (and every time? Wouldn't it be OK to fail during fetching packages if the lists are not up-to-date as it would happen with apt-get install? The user should just remember to run update first or live with the consequences otherwise. 2. fetching the binary/source package fails if there is more than one version available, e.g. because sources.list contains stable, testing, unstable, ... with appropriate priorities set in the preferences file, e.g. # /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/create bzip2 Fetching source bzip2 1.0.5-3 for bzip2 Fetching source bzip2 1.0.5-2 for bzip2 Fetching source bzip2 1.0.5-1 for bzip2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to find a source package for bzip2 Fetching source failed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main bzip2 1.0.5-3 [46.5kB] Fetched 46.5kB in 0s (679kB/s) All sources and packages fetched, all versions match. Enjoy. dpkg-source: error: cannot open *dsc: No such file or directory So let's try some other common syntax to select a specific variant: # /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/create -t testing bzip2 E: Command line option 't' [from -t] is not known. ... # /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/create bzip2/testing W: Unable to locate package bzip2/testing E: No packages found Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Must specify at least one package to fetch source for Fetching source failed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Get:1 http://debian.ae.cs.uni-frankfurt.de testing/main bzip2 1.0.5-2 [45.5kB] Fetched 45.5kB in 0s (0B/s) bzip2/testing_*_i386.deb missing # /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/create bzip2=1.0.5-2 W: Unable to locate package bzip2=1.0.5-2 E: No packages found Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Must specify at least one package to fetch source for Fetching source failed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Get:1 http://debian.ae.cs.uni-frankfurt.de testing/main bzip2 1.0.5-2 [45.5kB] Fetched 45.5kB in 0s (0B/s) bzip2=1.0.5-2_*_i386.deb missing Seems to work a little bit, depending on how the parameter is passed to other programs. The naming of 'create-all' and 'create' is inconsistent to what they do: 'create-all' creates new packages (no parameters, processes a list) 'create' requires a parameter (the package to work on) but only does a preparating step, not the package build. There is a script missing that builds converted packages for the command line parameter(s) together with a changes file so that all this can be uploaded to a local repository. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (130, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org