[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#535425: Bug#535425: ia32-libs-tools/create[-all] failures

[Andreas Beckmann]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:
> 
>> Package: ia32-libs-tools
>> Version: 20
>> Severity: normal
...
>> 1. /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/fetch calls 'apt-get update' but fails. 
...
>>    Is it really neccessary to call apt-get update from fetch (and every
>>    time? Wouldn't it be OK to fail during fetching packages if the lists
>>    are not up-to-date as it would happen with apt-get install?
>>    The user should just remember to run update first or live with the
>>    consequences otherwise.
> 
> I think that is acceptable and actually preferable.

How will this work for build-all? A single update takes much longer than
 the corresponding package build.

>> 2. fetching the binary/source package fails if there is more than one
>>    version available, e.g. because sources.list contains stable,
...
> All this is the fetch script and I see the problem. It tries to
> downloads the source for every version of the bzip2 binary it
> knows. And you do not have a deb-src entry for every deb entry, so not
> every version does have sources. And even with sources for all
> versions the create will later complain about multiple *.dsc files.

All my test happend in pbuilder environments and you are right, there
are no deb-src lines at all :-)

> Afaik for apt-get source neither -t testing not /testing works. But if
> I use the above idea to fetch binaries first and scan them then that
> can be supported by fetch and create.

-t does work, /testing does not (which is a little bit confusing and
already reported: #414105).

>> There is a script missing that builds converted packages for the command
>> line parameter(s) together with a changes file so that all this can be
>> uploaded to a local repository.
> 
> How about create <pkg>, build <pkg>, build-all?

Sounds good.



Regards,

Andreas