At Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:00:58 +0100,
Brian Potkin wrote:
> 
> 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
> 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.

Hi,

Thanks for bugreport.

Even if you add the line outside of chroot, you will get an error
message without a Packages file.  I'm not quite sure if adding
anything in pbuilder docs would have helped many people.




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