retitle 639859 apt-build uses outdated apt configuration settings tag 639859 - patch quit
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:40:25 +0200 Laurent Dard <f.coupe...@online.fr> wrote: > Package: apt-build > Version: 0.12.38 > Severity: grave > Tags: sid wheezy patch Dropping the patch tag because the patch is incomplete (although likely to be along most of the right lines). > # apt-build install hello > it fails with: > >W: Failed to fetch > >file:/var/cache/apt-build/repository/dists/apt-build/Release Unable to find > >expected entry 'main/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong > >sources.list entry or malformed file) apt-build needs to update the configuration string which it passes to apt, along the same lines as recent updates in multistrap, xapt and other tools which use apt in custom locations. > >E: The value 'apt-build' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a > >release is not available in the sources This is another instance of #637434 and may well need a similar patch which can be seen in Emdebian SVN: http://www.emdebian.org/trac/changeset/8062 AFAICT if the test system does not use a Default-Release, this bug won't occur. apt-build *might* have to assert unstable as the Default-Release or try to replicate the system setting somehow. I don't use apt-build. > I erased "/var/cache/apt-build" and applied the following patch to get rid apt-build should do this anyway. xapt has a similar --clean option explicitly to do this kind of thing. If it doesn't, this would warrant another stage to the patch or a new bug report (severity important). > Unfortunately, it doesn't solve the problem. > "apt-get update" keeps saying: > E: The value 'apt-build' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a > release is not available in the sources > > Maybe an apt bug rather than an apt-build bug ? No, it will still be an apt-build bug. The question is what do you expect apt-build to do if Default-Release is set on your own system? Build for unstable (Debian expectation) or build for whatever is the Default-Release on your system? Once that is decided, the final tweak to the patch should be fairly trivial. apt-build is an orphaned package (and has been orphaned for a v.long time) and has no maintainer. If you're doing this much work on apt-build, maybe you should read the orphaning bug (#365427) and see if you can work with those who have also expressed an interest but not actually made the upload as maintainer. Maybe even form a team. Otherwise, once the Wheezy freeze starts, apt-build could well be removed. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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