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Creating an ubuntu base path is trickier because one must : 1. import ubuntu signing keys 1. exclude packages of priority `important` in `/usr/share/cdebootstrap/generic-ubuntu/packages` |
Creating an ubuntu base path is trickier because one must : 1. Obtain ubuntu signing keys 1. Use --keyring option to specific ubuntu signing keys |
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$ wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/project/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg $ sudo cp ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ |
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--debootstrapopts --exclude=udev,pcmciautils,initramfs-tools | --debootstrapopts --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg |
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}}} At the end you should add: {{{ PDEBUILD_PBUILDER="cowbuilder" |
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dget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nano/nano_2.2.6-1.dsc cd nano-2.2.6 |
dget -x http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nano/nano_2.2.6-1.dsc |
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sudo DIST=squeeze ARCH=i386 pdebuild | sudo DIST=squeeze ARCH=i386 |
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sudo DIST=hardy ARCH=amd64 pdebuild | sudo DIST=hardy ARCH=amd64 cowbuilder --build nano_2.2.6-1.dsc |
This is a tutorial for cowbuilder. See also qemubuilder.
Contents
Usage
Initialization
Create the base image:
sudo cowbuilder --create
And a new and shiny build image is created in /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/
Every day usage
Update the base image
sudo cowbuilder --update
Build a package:
sudo cowbuilder --build somepackage.dsc
Tips
Bash and SVN tips
Setup your .bashrc according to: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2007/09/svn-cowbuilder/
Building your package for many distributions at once
cowbuilder is really handy to build your pet project for many distributions at once. If you have got an amd64 system, you can easily build a package for i386 and amd64 architectures and for say stable, sid and lucid.
The first step involves creating as many basepaths as you need. I chose to put them in /var/cache/pbuilder/$DIST-$ARCH/base.cow.
sudo mkdir /var/cache/pbuilder/squeeze-i386/
- Then create the base image :
sudo cowbuilder \ --create \ --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/squeeze-i386/base.cow\ --distribution squeeze\ --debootstrapopts --arch --debootstrapopts i386
Creating an ubuntu base path is trickier because one must :
- Obtain ubuntu signing keys
- Use --keyring option to specific ubuntu signing keys
add universe to complete creation of chroot because the cowdancer package is in universe.
$ wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/project/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg $ sudo cp ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ $ DIST=gutsy sudo cowbuilder --create \ --distribution gutsy \ --components "main universe" \ --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/gutsy-amd64.cow \ --mirror http://apt:9999/ubuntu \ --debootstrapopts --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg
Create a ~/.pbuilderrc file, taking the one from Ubuntu pbuilder howto, in the Multiple pbuilders section, uncommenting the line
BASEPATH="/var/cache/pbuilder/$NAME/base.cow/
- Bring your cowbuilder chroot up to date by running
sudo DIST=sid cowbuilder --update
- You can now build up a package. For instance a backport of nano for squeeze:
dget -x http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nano/nano_2.2.6-1.dsc # For a Debian Squeeze on i386 target sudo DIST=squeeze ARCH=i386 # Ubuntu a Hardy on amd64 target sudo DIST=hardy ARCH=amd64 cowbuilder --build nano_2.2.6-1.dsc
The result will be available in: /var/cache/pbuilder/squeeze-i386/result
Optionnal
- Once everything is set up, you can use a script in a debian source package directory to build it for every distribution.
set -e RESULTDIR=$1 [ -d $RESULTDIR ] || mkdir $RESULTDIR DISTLIST=$(ls -d /var/cache/pbuilder/*.cow) for chrootdir in $DISTLIST do sudo cowbuilder --update --basepath $chrootdir DIST=$(basename $chrootdir | cut -d'-' -f1) [ -d $RESULTDIR/$DIST ] || mkdir $RESULTDIR/$DIST DIST=$DIST pdebuild --pbuilder cowbuilder\ --buildresult $RESULTDIR/$DIST\ -- --basepath $chrootdir done
You can use an apt cache to reduce the downloads on mirrors, so if the mirror is http://apt:9999/debian or http://apt:9999/ubuntu.
( you shoud then add --mirror http://apt:9999/debian
- You can use eatmydata inside the cowbuilder chroot to speed up dpkg
DIST=sid cowbuilder --login --save apt-get install eatmydata
- And add this /etc/pbuilderrc
if [ -z "$LD_PRELOAD" ]; then LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libeatmydata/libeatmydata.so else LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD":/usr/lib/libeatmydata/libeatmydata.so fi export LD_PRELOAD
Using with git-buildpackage
The above config can be adapted to work with the defaults of git-buildpackage:
-BASEPATH="/var/cache/pbuilder/$NAME/base.cow/" +BASEPATH="/var/cache/pbuilder/base-$NAME.cow/"
Then the images can be created with:
DIST=sid ARCH=amd64 git-pbuilder create
And packages be built with:
DIST=sid ARCH=amd64 git-buildpackage --builder=git-pbuilder
A bug was opened to make sure the ARCH argument is coherent with the pbuilder way (ie. that it's optional), see: #646882
Troubleshooting
Slow copying and removing of the COW directory
What cowbuilder does is:
cp -al /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow /tmp/new rm -rf /tmp/new
Of course cowbuilder uses a different location than /tmp/new. You need to optimize those 2 commands on your computer. They should take around 0.2s each. If not, try to use the ext3 filesystem, for more details, see our benchmarks.