Environment¶

Build environment creation¶

The following steps needs to be run just once for each arch and distro version.

Setup cowbuilder chroots¶

This is the recommended method:

sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/pbuilder/sid-amd64
sudo -E cowbuilder --create

sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/pbuilder/bookworm-amd64
sudo -E DIST=bookworm cowbuilder --create

Setup pbuilder chroots¶

If you want to setup directly using pbuilder:

git-pbuilder create
DIST=bookworm git-pbuilder

Compatibility with git-buildpackage¶

This is a workaround while we don't find a cleaner way to fix this issue with git-buildpackage not getting ~/.pbuilderrc from the local user:

( cd /var/cache/pbuilder/ && sudo ln -s sid-amd64/base.cow )

External repository integration¶

If your package storage lives elsewhere, make a symlink like this:

(
  mkdir /var/data/distros/debian/packages/build-area/bookworm-amd64
  cd /var/cache/pbuilder/bookworm-amd64 && \
  sudo rm -rf result                    && \
  sudo ln -s /var/data/distros/debian/packages/build-area/bookworm-amd64 result
)

Environment maintenance¶

These steps should be run once in a while to ensure we have an up to date packaging environment.

Pbuilder¶

DIST=sid      git-pbuilder update
DIST=bookworm git-pbuilder update --override-config

Cowbuilder¶

DIST=sid      sudo -E cowbuilder --update
DIST=bookworm sudo -E cowbuilder --update --override-config