Bug#537947: pbuilder create fails

[Brian Potkin]

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

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josie at 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) <ftpmaster at debian.org>"
I: Good signature from "Lenny Stable Release Key <debian-release at lists.debian.org>"
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

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No base.tgz is created. But if I do

josie at 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