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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