Bug#586714: pbuilder --debuild aborts without visible error message

Junichi Uekawa dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Wed Jun 23 15:32:18 UTC 2010


I don't seem to remember that this command was useful at all.
Please use pdebuild --use-pdebuild-internal instead.

pbuilder --debuild seems like a left over from past.


At Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:12:14 +0200,
Marc Haber wrote:
> 
> Package: pbuilder
> Version: 0.196
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> pbuilder --debuild, called in a directory with an unpacked Debian
> source package, results in
> pbuilder execute /usr/lib/pbuilder/pdebuild-internal
> This shifts, leaving $1 and $@ empty, which results - indirectly - in
> a call to
> chroot $BUILDPLACE copy-of-pdebuild-internal (without additional
> parameters). pdebuild-internal then does cd "$1", which translates to
> cd "" (which looks wrong anyway). The following shift tries to shift
> an empty argument list which leads to abort of the entire process,
> thanks to set -e, without any error message whatsoever.
> 
> If I'm using pbuilder --debuild wrong, the manpage needs to be
> improved and pdebuild-internal needs to be changed to print a helpful
> error message in the case that it's called without parameters - it
> seems to need parameters.
> 
> If I'm using pbuilder --debuild correctly, then it's showstopperbuggy.
> 
> Greetings
> Marc
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-zgsrv20080 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
> ii  cdebootstrap                  0.5.5      Bootstrap a Debian system
> ii  coreutils                     8.5-1      GNU core utilities
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.32     Debian configuration management sy
> ii  debianutils                   3.2.3      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
> ii  debootstrap                   1.0.23     /usr/lib/pbuilder/pdebuild-in Bootstrap a basic Debian system
> ii  wget                          1.12-2     retrieves files from the web
> 
> Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
> ii  devscripts                    2.10.64    scripts to make the life of a Debi
> ii  fakeroot                      1.14.4-1   Gives a fake root environment
> ii  sudo                          1.7.2p7-1  Provide limited super user privile
> 
> Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
> pn  cowdancer                     <none>     (no description available)
> pn  gdebi-core                    <none>     (no description available)
> pn  pbuilder-uml                  <none>     (no description available)
> 
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/pbuilderrc changed [not included]
> 
> -- debconf information excluded
> 
> 
> 
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