Bug#514358: pdebuild host --debbuildopts inherited by target pbuild

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hmm....

IMO, That's a feature, not a bug. If this is really biting people, I
might consider adding that...

I don't want to accept this patch.


At Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:39:52 +0000,
TJ wrote:
> 
> Package: pbuilder
> Version: 0.183ubuntu1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> (originally reported as
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pbuilder/+bug/326216)
> 
> This is a latent bug, exposed when building for target releases that
> have dpkg-source < v1.14.7.
> 
> The problem is that when using pdebuilder and passing --debbuildopts to
> both 'sides' (host and target), the target pbuilder dpkg-source
> incorrectly inherits the host --debbuildopts.
> 
> For example:
> 
>  HOST_DEB_OPTIONS="--debbuildopts -i -I"
>  PBUILDER_DEB_OPTIONS="--debbuildopts -Idebian/dpkg-source.excludes"
>  pdebuild --logfile $LOGNAME ${HOST_DEB_OPTIONS} -- ${PBUILDER_DEB_OPTIONS}
> 
> results in the inner dpkg-source seeing:
> 
>  dpkg-source -i -I -Idebian/dpkg-source.excludes -b kvm-83+dfsg
> 
> Which in Hardy and later isn't a problem (since -I is acceptable to
> dpkg-source >= v1.14.7). However, if working on back-porting a package
> to Gutsy or Feisty or Edgy the versions of dpkg-source in those releases
> do not understand the -I option without a file specification
> (-I<exclusion.list>).
> 
> This will cause the target pbuild to fail since the source can't be
> extracted.
> 
> This wouldn't have come to light if it wasn't for my desire to back-port
> some packages for use on long-lived servers that are running stable
> older releases. In these cases my build_test script generates two
> different sets of --debbuildopts for the host (more recent) and target
> (older) dpkg-source.
> 
> The builds were failing and as can be seen in the example above it is
> because the host's --debbuildopts are passing to the target.
> 
> --- System information. ---
> Architecture: amd64
> Kernel:       Linux 2.6.24-21-generic
> 
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   500 hardy-updates   gb.archive.ubuntu.com 
>   500 hardy-security  security.ubuntu.com 
>   500 hardy-backports gb.archive.ubuntu.com 
>   500 hardy           wine.budgetdedicated.com 
>   500 hardy           gb.archive.ubuntu.com 
>   500 hardy           archive.canonical.com 
> 
> --- Package information. ---
> Depends             (Version) | Installed
> =============================-+-=============
> coreutils        (>= 4.5.8-1) | 6.10-3ubuntu2
> debianutils       (>= 1.13.1) | 2.28.2-0ubuntu1
> debootstrap                   | 1.0.9~hardy1
>  OR cdebootstrap              | 
> gcc                           | 4:4.2.3-1ubuntu6
> wget                          | 1.10.2-3ubuntu1
> 
> --- debdiff (Ubuntu-specific changelog entry) ---
> diff -Nru pbuilder-0.183ubuntu1/debian/changelog pbuilder-0.183ubuntu2/debian/changelog
> --- pbuilder-0.183ubuntu1/debian/changelog	2008-11-05 15:07:42.000000000 +0000
> +++ pbuilder-0.183ubuntu2/debian/changelog	2009-02-06 16:20:57.000000000 +0000
> @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
> +pbuilder (0.183ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low
> +
> +  * Don't pass host --debbuildopts to target (LP: #326216)
> +
> + -- TJ <ubuntu at tjworld.net>  Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:30:00 +0000
> +
>  pbuilder (0.183ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low
>  
>    * Merge with Debian unstable. Remaining Ubuntu changes:
> diff -Nru pbuilder-0.183ubuntu1/pdebuild pbuilder-0.183ubuntu2/pdebuild
> --- pbuilder-0.183ubuntu1/pdebuild	2008-11-05 12:19:53.000000000 +0000
> +++ pbuilder-0.183ubuntu2/pdebuild	2009-02-06 16:19:23.000000000 +0000
> @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
>  	echo "W: Unmet build-dependency in source" >&2
>      fi
>      echo "dpkg-buildpackage -S -us -uc -r${BUILDSOURCEROOTCMD} $DEBBUILDOPTS" | perl -pe 's/(^|\s)-[bB](\s|$)/$1$2/g' | /bin/bash
> -    ${PBUILDERROOTCMD} ${PDEBUILD_PBUILDER} --build ${EXTRA_CONFIGFILE[@]/#/--configfile } --buildresult "${BUILDRESULT}"  --debbuildopts "${DEBBUILDOPTS}" "$@"  ../"${PKG_SOURCENAME}_${PKG_VERSION}".dsc
> +    ${PBUILDERROOTCMD} ${PDEBUILD_PBUILDER} --build ${EXTRA_CONFIGFILE[@]/#/--configfile } --buildresult "${BUILDRESULT}" "$@"  ../"${PKG_SOURCENAME}_${PKG_VERSION}".dsc
>  fi
>  
>  # do signing with optional key specifier
> 
> 
> 
> 
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