Package: pbuilder Version: 0.181 Severity: normal This is a new pbuilder setup with a ~/.pbuilderrc containing
OTHERMIRROR="deb file:/var/cache/pbuilder/result ./" BINDMOUNTS="/var/cache/pbuilder/result ------------------------------------------------------------------------- jo...@laptop:~$ sudo pbuilder create Distribution is lenny. Building the build environment -> running cdebootstrap /usr/bin/cdebootstrap P: Retrieving Release P: Retrieving Release.gpg P: Validating Release I: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny) <[email protected]>" I: Good signature from "Lenny Stable Release Key <[email protected]>" P: Parsing Release P: Retrieving Packages.gz P: Validating Packages.gz P: Parsing Packages P: Retrieving gcc-4.3-base P: Validating gcc-4.3-base P: Retrieving libgcc1 P: Validating libgcc1 P: Retrieving libc6 And more of this until we get: P: Writing hosts P: Writing resolv.conf -> debootstrap finished -> copying local configuration -> Installing apt-lines Refreshing the base.tgz -> upgrading packages -> mounting /proc filesystem -> mounting /dev/pts filesystem -> Mounting /var/cache/pbuilder/result -> policy-rc.d already exists Ign file: ./ Release.gpg Ign file: ./ Release Ign file: ./ Packages Ign file: ./ Packages Err file: ./ Packages File not found Get:1 http://ftp.ticklers.org lenny Release.gpg [1032B] Get:2 http://ftp.ticklers.org lenny Release [73.6kB] Get:3 http://ftp.ticklers.org lenny/main Packages [5294kB] Fetched 5368kB in 20s (264kB/s) W: Failed to fetch file:/var/cache/pbuilder/result/./Packages File not found E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. -> Aborting with an error -> unmounting /var/cache/pbuilder/result filesystem -> unmounting dev/pts filesystem -> unmounting proc filesystem -> cleaning the build env -> removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build//17184 and its subdirectories --------------------------------------------------------------------------- No base.tgz is created. But if I do jo...@laptop:/var/cache/pbuilder/result$ sudo sh -c "dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages" Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file. the pbuilder create command is successful. Maybe it is obvious to a developer but it would be helpful to document the need for a Packages file. Cheers, Brian. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages pbuilder depends on: ii cdebootstrap 0.5.4 Bootstrap a Debian system ii coreutils 6.10-6 The GNU core utilities ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii gcc 4:4.3.2-2 The GNU C compiler ii wget 1.11.4-2 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages pbuilder recommends: pn cowdancer <none> (no description available) pn devscripts <none> (no description available) ii fakeroot 1.11 Gives a fake root environment ii sudo 1.6.9p17-2 Provide limited super user privile Versions of packages pbuilder suggests: pn pbuilder-uml <none> (no description available) -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

