Hi, On Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, Simon McVittie wrote: > Ideally, I would like a guide to setting up piuparts in a simple, > recommended way, which doesn't assume I already have in-depth knowledge > of piuparts, and preferably also doesn't assume I already use pbuilder.
that's really easy, esp. with the last constraint. Just run:
sudo piuparts $changes_file
Easy, or?
And if you use pbuilder, piuparts will just pick up that base.tgz.
> Another thing that would be helpful is some sort of idea of what to do
> with a failing piuparts log, for instance "which bits are likely to be
> significant?",
The part at the end where piuparts emits the error. (This is mentioned in the
FAQ.) These lines are also marked "E:".
> I've seen at least a couple of conversations in piuparts-generated RC
Me too. :/ So specific bug reports are definitly welcome, after years of using
piuparts it's all clear to me :-)
> OK, I made a minimal squeeze chroot, installed package X and
> upgraded to wheezy. It worked. Now what? What was piuparts doing
> differently?
Reply this to the bug, piuparts does not much differently than that actually.
cheers,
Holger
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