On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 15:46 +0000, Lorenzo De Liso wrote:

> Are you trying to do that on a chroot?
> 
> ** Changed in: pbuilder (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => Medium
> 


attempting to create one yes ...

Here is the content in my /etc/pbuilderrc file

# Codenames for Debian suites according to their alias. Update these
when
# needed.
UNSTABLE_CODENAME="sid"
TESTING_CODENAME="squeeze"
STABLE_CODENAME="lenny"
STABLE_BACKPORTS_SUITE="$STABLE_CODENAME-backports"

# List of Debian suites.
DEBIAN_SUITES=($UNSTABLE_CODENAME $TESTING_CODENAME $STABLE_CODENAME
    "unstable" "testing" "stable")

# List of Ubuntu suites. Update these when needed.
UBUNTU_SUITES=("maverick" "lucid" "karmic" "jaunty" "hardy")

# Mirrors to use. Update these to your preferred mirror.
DEBIAN_MIRROR="mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian"
UBUNTU_MIRROR="mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu"

# Optionally use the changelog of a package to determine the suite to
use if
# none set.
if [ -z "${DIST}" ] && [ -r "debian/changelog" ]; then
    DIST=$(dpkg-parsechangelog | awk '/^Distribution: / {print $2}')
    # Use the unstable suite for certain suite values.
    if $(echo "experimental UNRELEASED" | grep -q $DIST); then
        DIST="$UNSTABLE_CODENAME"
    fi
fi

# Optionally set a default distribution if none is used. Note that you
can set
# your own default (i.e. ${DIST:="unstable"}).
: ${DIST:="$(lsb_release --short --codename)"}

# Optionally change Debian release states in $DIST to their names.
case "$DIST" in
    unstable)
        DIST="$UNSTABLE_CODENAME"
        ;;
    testing)
        DIST="$TESTING_CODENAME"
        ;;
    stable)
        DIST="$STABLE_CODENAME"
        ;;
esac

# Optionally set the architecture to the host architecture if none set.
Note
# that you can set your own default (i.e. ${ARCH:="i386"}).
: ${ARCH:="$(dpkg --print-architecture)"}

NAME="$DIST"
if [ -n "${ARCH}" ]; then
    NAME="$NAME-$ARCH"
    DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS=("--arch" "$ARCH" "${DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS[@]}")
fi
BASETGZ="/var/cache/pbuilder/$NAME-base.tgz"
# Optionally, set BASEPATH (and not BASETGZ) if using cowbuilder
# BASEPATH="/var/cache/pbuilder/$NAME/base.cow/"
DISTRIBUTION="$DIST"
BUILDRESULT="/var/cache/pbuilder/$NAME/result/"
APTCACHE="/var/cache/pbuilder/$NAME/aptcache/"
BUILDPLACE="/var/cache/pbuilder/build/"

if $(echo ${DEBIAN_SUITES[@]} | grep -q $DIST); then
    # Debian configuration
    MIRRORSITE="http://$DEBIAN_MIRROR/debian/"
    COMPONENTS="main contrib non-free"
    # This is for enabling backports for the Debian stable suite.
    if $(echo "$STABLE_CODENAME stable" | grep -q $DIST); then
        EXTRAPACKAGES="$EXTRAPACKAGES debian-backports-keyring"
        OTHERMIRROR="$OTHERMIRROR | deb http://www.backports.org/debian
$STABLE_BACKPORTS_SUITE $COMPONENTS"
    fi
elif $(echo ${UBUNTU_SUITES[@]} | grep -q $DIST); then
    # Ubuntu configuration
    MIRRORSITE="http://$UBUNTU_MIRROR/ubuntu/"
    COMPONENTS="main restricted universe multiverse"
else
    echo "Unknown distribution: $DIST"
    exit 1
fi

# ccache
sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/pbuilder/ccache
sudo chmod a+w /var/cache/pbuilder/ccache
export CCACHE_DIR="/var/cache/pbuilder/ccache"
export PATH="/usr/lib/ccache:${PATH}"
EXTRAPACKAGES=ccache
BINDMOUNTS="${CCACHE_DIR}"


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Scott Evans <email address hidden>