Bug#531454: [PATCH] pbuilder 0.188 breaks --update in etch chroots

[Peter Pentchev]

Hi,

My workplace still needs support for Etch, too, although we are
planning a transition to Lenny soon.  The patch that will let
pbuilder work for Etch chroots is really quite simple; what do
people think about it? :)

If the patch gets mangled by the mailing list or the BTS, it may
also be found at
http://devel.ringlet.net/devel/pbuilder/no-autoremove-on-etch.patch

Index: pbuilder-updatebuildenv
===================================================================
--- pbuilder-updatebuildenv	(revision 3790)
+++ pbuilder-updatebuildenv	(revision 3791)
@@ -45,7 +45,13 @@
 
 $TRAP saveaptcache_umountproc_cleanbuildplace_trap exit sighup
 $CHROOTEXEC /usr/bin/apt-get -y --force-yes "${FORCE_CONFNEW[@]}" dist-upgrade
-$CHROOTEXEC /usr/bin/apt-get -y --force-yes autoremove
+aptver=`$CHROOTEXEC /usr/bin/dpkg-query -W -f '${Version}' apt`
+log "I: Obtained apt version $aptver"
+if [ -n "$aptver" ] && dpkg --compare-versions "$aptver" ge '0.7.6'; then
+    $CHROOTEXEC /usr/bin/apt-get -y --force-yes autoremove
+else
+    log "I: Skipping apt-get autoremove"
+fi
 $CHROOTEXEC /usr/bin/apt-get -y --force-yes install build-essential dpkg-dev apt aptitude $EXTRAPACKAGES
 save_aptcache

G'luck,
Peter

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