Bug#488827: [Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#488827: fails to obtain orig tarball when building a -2 package

[Johannes Schauer]

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Hi,

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:22:39 +0100 martin f krafft  wrote:
> also sprach Roger Leigh  [2010.10.31.2229 +0100]:
> > sbuild and/or apt-get aren't clever enough to get some locally and some
> > remote e.g. .dsc/.diff.gz locally and the .orig from a mirror).
> 
> I think this is the problem and shortcoming. If I generate a *_source.changes
> file for a -2 package, the orig tarball will not be included, nor will the
> .dsc file reference it — *because* it is assumed to be publicly available.
> 
> sbuild can install build-dependencies, so it already interacts with an APT
> mirror. Wouldn't it make sense and be possible for it to also install missing
> source package components, or at least to try?

this could be done but what is your usecase? In which situation would you have
a source-only .changes file but *not* the original source tarball around?

Thanks!

cheers, josch


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Bug#488827: [Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#488827: fails to obtain orig tarball when building a -2 package

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net [2010.10.31.2229 +0100]:
 sbuild and/or apt-get aren't clever enough to get some locally and
 some remote e.g. .dsc/.diff.gz locally and the .orig from
 a mirror).

I think this is the problem and shortcoming. If I generate
a *_source.changes file for a -2 package, the orig tarball will not
be included, nor will the .dsc file reference it — *because* it is
assumed to be publicly available.

sbuild can install build-dependencies, so it already interacts with
an APT mirror. Wouldn't it make sense and be possible for it to also
install missing source package components, or at least to try?

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Bug#488827: [Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#488827: fails to obtain orig tarball when building a -2 package

[Roger Leigh]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:44:07PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
 Package: sbuild
 Version: 0.57.3-1
 Severity: normal
 
 I am trying to build a source package with Debian revision -2 and
 thus no orig.tar.gz. At first, sbuild complained:
 
   Automatic build of molly-guard_0.4.4-2 on pulse by sbuild/amd64 0.57.0  
   
   Build started at 20080701-1530
   
 **
   /usr/bin/md5sum: ./molly-guard_0.4.4.orig.tar.gz: No such file or directory
   Checking available source versions...
   E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
   /usr/bin/apt-cache returned no information about molly-guard source
   Are there any deb-src lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list?
 
 After I put in the line and ran the upgrade, I get
 
   Automatic build of molly-guard_0.4.4-2 on pulse by sbuild/amd64 0.57.0  
   
   Build started at 20080701-1533
   
 **
   /usr/bin/md5sum: ./molly-guard_0.4.4.orig.tar.gz: No such file or directory
   Checking available source versions...
   Checking available source versions...
   Can't find source for molly-guard_0.4.4-2
   (only different version(s) molly-guard 0.4.4-1 found)
 
 It's looking for the wrong thing and thus fails.
 
   apt-get --tar-only source molly-guard
 
 would have obtained the file...

Sorry for the long delay.

What command did you use to build?  I only see the log output above.

Did you have all of the source files in the working directory (or
whichever directory the .dsc was in)?  If working locally (rather
than from a mirror), you do need to .dsc, .diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz
(or the dpkg-source v3 equivalents); sbuild and/or apt-get aren't
clever enough to get some locally and some remote e.g. .dsc/.diff.gz
locally and the .orig from a mirror).

If it was all on the mirror, is it possible the mirror was out of
sync?

Does sbuild -A -d unstable molly-guard_0.4.4-2 do the right thing?
It works for me (see attached).



Thanks,
Roger

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