On 10 Oct 2020, at 14:22, Roger Shimizu <r...@debian.org> wrote: > >> I tried adding this to ~/.pbuilderrc, but it gets ignored: >> >> OTHERMIRROR="deb http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable" > > I meet this issue, too. > and I need to build both unstable and backports, so I find the > solution is appending the following to ~/.pbuilderrc: > > ==== > if [ -z "${DIST}" ] && [ -r "debian/changelog" ]; then > DIST=$(dpkg-parsechangelog | awk '/^Distribution: / {print $2}') > fi > OTHERMIRROR="$OTHERMIRROR | deb > http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-${DIST} main" > ==== > > Of course, above will be applied after running: > $ git-pbuilder update --override-config
Yeah this is an important point, sources.list is not overwritten without --override-config. As with most of cowbuilder's options, pbuilder's manpage more thoroughly documents all this, given that cowbuilder is just a wrapper around pbuilder. As for HOOKDIR, that's also just a pbuilder option. How are you running cowbuilder? Are you running it directly with sudo and forgetting you need -E or --preserve-env=HOME in order for its HOME to not be ~root? Does your ~/.pbuilderrc include other settings you know are working? Jess
