I just recently started using pbuilder. Previously I have been maintaining my own chroots as required. I can see why people recommend pbuilder. It is very nice! But things do not seem to be operating as I believe they should and I have been unable to figure this out. Let me set the stage.
sudo apt-get install pbuilder
echo 'MIRRORSITE=' > ~/.pbuilderrc # MIRRORSITE= my apt-proxy cache
sudo pbuilder create
cd # some package directory which uses ${shlibs:Depends} in control
grep ^Depends: debian/control
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
pdebuild
dpkg-deb --info /var/cache/pbuilder/result/*.deb |grep Depends:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
So then in an attempt to resolve this I add DISTRIBUTION=woody to my
$HOME/.pbuilderrc file but I receive the same result. Why doesn't the
depends show up as 2.2.5-11.5? So I login to the chroot area to check.
sudo pbuilder login
dpkg --status libc6 |grep ^Version:
Version: 2.2.5-11.5
Really and truly 2.2.5 is installed in the changeroot. But 2.2.4 is
getting listed as the Depends: for the package getting built. I
manually built a package in the pbuilder chroot with the same result.
So the problem would seem to me to be in dpkg-shlibdeps in the chroot.
No debian/shlibs.local exists. The /etc/dpkg/shlibs.default only
contains comments.
My system is mainly woody but does have a variety of backports.
Thinking this might be something related to the version of pbuilder or
debootstrap I updated to the latest pbuilder from unstable (version
0.96) which required a newer debootstrap which I pulled (version
0.2.9.backports.org.1) but with the same result. And that is when I
decided that someone must have debugged this already and that I would
ask for help.
Why does building a package with pbuilder generate the seemingly wrong
version for Depends: of 2.2.4-4 regarldless that 2.2.5-11.5 is the
installed library? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Bob
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