mk-sbuild-lv: debian sid doesn't have security updates

[Ryan Niebur]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

when creating a chroot for Debian sid I get these errors:

Err http://security.debian.org sid/updates/main Packages
  404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.250 80]
Err http://security.debian.org sid/updates/non-free Packages
  404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.250 80]
Err http://security.debian.org sid/updates/contrib Packages
  404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.250 80]
Err http://security.debian.org sid/updates/main Sources
  404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.250 80]
Err http://security.debian.org sid/updates/non-free Sources
  404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.250 80]
Err http://security.debian.org sid/updates/contrib Sources
  404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.250 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/sid/updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.250 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/sid/updates/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.250 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/sid/updates/contrib/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.250 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/sid/updates/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.250 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/sid/updates/non-free/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.250 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/sid/updates/contrib/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.250 80]

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

This is because debian doesn't have security updates for sid.
Here's a patch (untested, sorry) to fix this:

--- mk-sbuild-lv 2009-05-04 01:54:07.000000000 -0700
+++ mk-sbuild-lv.new 2009-05-04 02:06:21.000000000 -0700
@@ -258,6 +258,9 @@
     if [ -z "$SOURCES_SECURITY_URL" ]; then
         SOURCES_SECURITY_URL="http://security.debian.org/"
     fi
+ if [ "$RELEASE" = "unstable" -o "$RELEASE" = "sid" ]; then
+ SKIP_SECURITY=1
+ fi
     ;;
 *)
     echo "Unknown --distro '$DISTRO': aborting" >&2
@@ -291,10 +294,12 @@
 deb-src ${DEBOOTSTRAP_MIRROR} RELEASE-updates ${COMPONENTS}
 EOM
     fi
- cat >> "$TEMP_SOURCES" <<EOM
+ if [ -z "$SKIP_SECURITY" ]; then
+ cat >> "$TEMP_SOURCES" <<EOM
 deb ${SOURCES_SECURITY_URL} ${SOURCES_SECURITY_SUITE} ${COMPONENTS}
 deb-src ${SOURCES_SECURITY_URL} ${SOURCES_SECURITY_SUITE} ${COMPONENTS}
 EOM
+ fi
 fi
 cat "$TEMP_SOURCES" | sed -e "s|RELEASE|$RELEASE|g" | \
     sudo bash -c "cat > $MNT/etc/apt/sources.list"

[Ryan Niebur (ryan52)]

patch tested to work building a debian sid chroot

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Ah-ha! Good catch, thanks. I've added your patch to the bzr tree.

[Ryan Niebur (ryan52)]

thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.74

---------------
ubuntu-dev-tools (0.74) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Kees Cook ]
  * mk-sbuild-lv:
    - Skip security repo for Debian unstable, thanks to Ryan Niebur
      (LP: #371569).
    - Change directory out of the way of schroot problems.

  [ Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals ]
  * grab-merge:
     - Show an error message if the package doesn't exist.
     - Be paraonic and add "--one-file-system" to the rm call.
     - Delete the directory just after creating it if the package
       doesn't exist.

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * ubuntutools/lp/lp_functions.py,
    ubuntutools/lp/udtexceptions.py:
    - Add new public functions that expose features from LP API
    - Modify isLPTeamMember to use LP API
  * requestsync
    - Use new functions to check if user can upload requested package directly
      instead of checking team membership
    - Default to current development release if no release is specified on
      commandline
    - Correct bug supervisor team to ubuntu-bugcontrol (LP: #374563)
    - Remove team names from sponsorship message - makes the function much
      simpler
  * buildd
    - Check if user has upload privileges instead of checking for team
      membership when seeing if operations are permitted

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * update-maintainer:
    - Convert to getopt so that '--section main' works as well as
      '--section=main'.

  [ Anders Kaseorg ]
  * ubuntutools/lp/functions.py:
    - Simplify isLPTeamMember.

  [ Nathan Handler ]
  * pull-debian-source: Modify to work for packages not in main (LP: #379822)

 -- Nathan Handler <email address hidden> Sat, 23 May 2009 20:41:50 +0000