[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#662785: Bug#662785: sbuild fails to build package when passed a directory

[Roger Leigh]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 12:16:39PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> I'm trying to replace my pbuilder/cowbuilder based build-setup by
> sbuild. Right now I have an issue when I try to build a package from a
> debian source folder.
> 
> Reading the manpage, it seems that theres are two ways to call sbuild:
> 
> - sbuild foo.dsc
> - sbuild folder
> 
> with a third form beeing just sbuild, where it uses $PWD as the
> argument. It seems that those don't work, because sbuild tries to call
> dpkg-source -b $PWD, which fails because it expects the orig.tar.gz to
> be in the *current* folder, while the tarballs are usually in the parent
> folder. A way to circumvent this is to call dpkg-source -b . instead of
> dpkg-source -b $PWD.
> 
> I'm not too sure how pdebuild handles that but it does support this
> mode.

Maybe we just need to change the CWD prior to running dpkg-source?
I'll take a closer look when I can--I'm moving house this week, so
it might be a week or two before I have internet connectivity and
free time.


Regards,
Roger

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