Description: When packaging with cowbuilder, each time you want to build, all needed packages have to been configured. This recipe shows how to prepare a cowbuilder base to do all this configurations only once.
Language(s): english
Copy a basic image (or create it with sudo cowbuilder –create):
$ sudo cp -a /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow /var/cache/pbuilder/base-PKGNAME.cow
Start a session within this image telling cowbuilder that all changes will be saved:
$ sudo cowbuilder --login --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/base-PKGNAME.cow --save-after-login
Once inside the image, enable package sources:
# sed -i 's/#\(deb-src .*\)/\1/g' /etc/apt/sources.list # aptitude update
Install build dependencies of the package:
# aptitude build-dep PKGNAME
Logout:
# exit
Now, to use this image for building:
$ sudo cowbuilder --build PKGNAME_VERSION.dsc --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/PKGNAME.cow
If you use git-buildackage:
$ gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder --git-dist='PKGNAME'
If you want to use this last command, your image must have the prefix 'base-' (see #721444)