Package: pbuilder Version: 0.200 Severity: normal Tags: patch When issuing DIST=... pdebuild [1] from within a package source directory to start building it, /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-buildpackage outputs the above error and build fails.
After searching it, it appears that the following line (#62) in file /usr/bin/pdebuild: ${PBUILDERROOTCMD} ${PDEBUILD_PBUILDER} --build ${EXTRA_CONFIGFILE[@]/#/--configfile } --buildresult "${BUILDRESULT}" --debbuildopts "" --debbuildopts "${DEBBUILDOPTS}" "$@" ../"${PKG_SOURCENAME}_${PKG_VERSION}".dsc leads to the error. Specifically, it passes an empty argument through "$@", which then makes the conditional code (while [ -n "$1" ]; do... loop) in /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-checkparams [2] to break early, thus supplying an empty dsc filename to /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-buildpackage. A patch is attached that resolved this issue with my configuration. The configuration in use is also attached, for your reference. NOTES: [1] pdebuild is allowed to run without pwd; relevant lines of /etc/sudoers are: Cmnd_Alias PDEBUILD = /usr/bin/pdebuild,/usr/bin/debuild-pbuilder DEVS HOST=(ALL) NOPASSWD: PDEBUILD with DEVS being a User_Alias and HOST a Host_Alias. [2] The debsums error below is due to the attached patch been applied to the file in question. regards George Zarkadas -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (450, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (450, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=el_GR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pbuilder depends on: ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii debootstrap 1.0.26+squeeze1 Bootstrap a basic Debian system ii wget 1.12-2.1 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages pbuilder recommends: ii devscripts 2.10.69+squeeze1 scripts to make the life of a Debi ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment ii sudo 1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.2 Provide limited super user privile Versions of packages pbuilder suggests: ii cowdancer 0.62+nmu2 Copy-on-write directory tree utili ii gdebi-core 0.6.4 Simple tool to install deb files pn pbuilder-uml <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ pbuilder/nomirror: pbuilder/rewrite: false -- debsums errors found: debsums: changed file /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-checkparams (from pbuilder package)
--- /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-checkparams.orig 2011-07-27 00:39:13.744900089 +0300 +++ /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-checkparams 2011-07-27 00:46:34.139646901 +0300 @@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ #option for user-mode-linux only. IGNORE_UMOUNT="" -while [ -n "$1" ]; do +while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do + #ignore empty arguments (for the case "$@" is empty) + if [ -z "$1" ]; then + shift + continue + fi case "$1" in --basetgz) case "${PBCURRENTCOMMANDLINEOPERATION}" in
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