EXTRAPACKAGES not installed

[Rolf Leggewie]

man 5 pbuilderrc says

       EXTRAPACKAGES="ccache lintian XXX"
              Specifies extra packages which the system should install in the chroot on pbuilder create. This is a space-delimited list.
              Also this is installed on pbuilder build

In reality EXTRAPACKAGES are not installed for the build target. There are two ways to remedy the situation. 1) update the man page to reflect the true state of things. 2) change the behaviour of the pbuilder to be in line with the man page.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I just realized that I routinely use the pbuilder-dist wrapper from ubuntu-dev-tools for my compilation needs and thus it might be a bug in that package and not necessarily in plain pbuilder.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I'm using a D type hook target now to install EXTRAPACKAGES in the meantime. For anyone else who experiences this issue and would be interested in the same fix, have a look into the pbuilder manpage under --hookdir

$ cat ~/pbuilder/private-hooks/D95install_EXTRAPACKAGES
#!/bin/bash
set -e
install_packages() {
    apt-get -y "${APTGETOPT[@]}" install "$@"
}
install_packages initscripts

You still need to make sure the hooks are actually called.

[Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos)]

Rolf Leggewie dixit:

>I'm using a D type hook target now to install EXTRAPACKAGES in the

You can just run --update immediately after creation.
Worse is the way REMOVEPACKAGES works… (it breaks things,
better to use EXTRAPACKAGES="foo-" to remove a package)

bye,
//mirabilos
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[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

I claim this is a bug in the pbuilderrc manpage and "fixed" it in the VCS:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pbuilder/pbuilder.git/commit/?id=062a28a59ed97c3921234e8eab995218367840bb

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pbuilder - 0.221ubuntu2

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pbuilder (0.221ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Gianfranco Costamagna ]
  * Remove XS-* prefix from debian control file, useless after dpkg 1.17.10.

  [ Mattia Rizzolo ]
  * cherry-pick change from Debian VCS to update pbuilder-apt-config and fix
    autopkgtest.

 -- Mattia Rizzolo <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Nov 2015 01:36:53 +0000