On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 3:24 PM Juan J. Natera <[email protected]> wrote:
> $ gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder > gbp:info: Building with (cowbuilder) for sid > Base directory /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow does not exist > gbp:error: 'git-pbuilder' failed: it exited with 1 > > So I tried: > > $ sudo cowbuilder --create > -> Invoking pbuilder > forking: pbuilder create --buildplace /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow --mirror > http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ --distribution xenial --no-targz > --extrapackages cowdancer > W: /home/jnatera/.pbuilderrc does not exist > I: Running in no-targz mode > I: Distribution is xenial. . . . > Reading package lists... > Building dependency tree... > Package cowdancer is not available, but is referred to by another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > > E: Package 'cowdancer' has no installation candidate > I: unmounting dev/pts filesystem > I: unmounting run/shm filesystem > I: unmounting proc filesystem > pbuilder create failed > forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow So the problem is basically you can't get it built, under Ubuntu Xenial. Were you able to build any package at all? Have you tried building with a newer Ubuntu, like Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic? When building under Debian, it is normally that the Debian stable is not up-to-date enough that we normally need to use sid, or even unstable. PS. I'm not an expert at all, just trying to help you out and get the ball rolling. :)
