[backportpackage] Doesn't find pbuilder-dist's chroot

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

My understanding is that pbuilder-dist's default location for its chroot is ~/pbuilder/$release-base.tgz and ~/pbuilder/$release-$arch-base.tgz for foreign archs. I haven't changed the defaults, but backportpackage fails. It's looking for ~/pbuilder/$release-$arch-base.tgz even though I'm building on the native arch.

$ apt-cache policy ubuntu-dev-tools
ubuntu-dev-tools:
  Installed: 0.140~daily+bzr1292~oneiric1
  Candidate: 0.140~daily+bzr1292~oneiric1
  Version table:
 *** 0.140~daily+bzr1292~oneiric1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/udt-developers/daily/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.132ubuntu0.2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/universe i386 Packages
     0.132 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe i386 Packages

$ ls ~/pbuilder/
experimental-base.tgz lucid_result natty_result precise_result
experimental_result maverick-base.tgz oneiric-base.tgz sid-base.tgz
local_repo maverick_result oneiric_result sid_result
lucid-base.tgz natty-base.tgz precise-base.tgz

$ uname -a
Linux andrew-laptop 3.0.0-16-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 27 17:50:54 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

$ cat ~/.pbuilderrc
AUTO_DEBSIGN=yes

HOOKDIR="/home/andrew/.pbuilder-hooks"

# Always turn on DH_VERBOSE
export DH_VERBOSE=1

# http://wiki.debian.org/PbuilderTricks
OTHERMIRROR="deb file:///home/andrew/pbuilder/local_repo ./"
BINDMOUNTS="/home/andrew/pbuilder/local_repo /var/cache/apt/archives"
EXTRAPACKAGES="apt-utils"

DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS=(
    '--variant=buildd'
    )

$ backportpackage --build -B pbuilder-dist -w ./build-area lintian
backportpackage: Downloading lintian_2.5.5.tar.gz from archive.ubuntu.com (1.012 MiB)

...snip...

Successfully signed dsc and changes files
[sudo] password for andrew:
E: File /home/andrew/pbuilder/oneiric-i386-base.tgz does not exist
backportpackage: Error: Failed to build lintian_2.5.5~oneiric1.dsc from source with pbuilder-dist.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Looks likea bug in pbuilder-dist. Please try a daily build >= rev 1293.

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

Fix confirmed. Thanks Stefano!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.140

---------------
ubuntu-dev-tools (0.140) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Stefano Rivera ]
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3, no changes needed.
  * Update machine-readable copyright Format to 1.0.
  * pbuilder-dist: Use the same chroot, whether the system-architecture was
    the supplied architecture or was chosen by default (LP: #943435)
  * backportpackage
    - Prompt to delete existing workdirs (LP: #885514)
    - Support a BACKPORTPACKAGE_UPLOAD configuration/enviornment variable
      (LP: #693217)
  * requestsync:
    - New packages from non-free or contrib go into multiverse (LP: #935643)
    - Catch SeriesNotFoundException and display a friendly error (LP: #963888)

  [ Daniel Hahler ]
  * ubuntutools/archive.py: use ProxyHandler in _download_file.
    This makes use of the system proxy (e.g. http_proxy).
  * pbuilder-dist: Do not force default value for `--aptcache` argument
    (LP: #956903)

  [ John S Gruber ]
  * Don't use --override-config with operations other than update.
    (LP: #409696)

 -- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:01:40 +0200