On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:08:10AM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > Suppose I have two packages: A and B where B depends and build depends > upon A. Neither package has been uploaded before. I can easily build > A in pbuilder using pdebuild, but I can't do the same with B because B > build depends upon A and A is not in the archive (thereby causing > pbuilder-satisfydepends to fail). I have gotten around this by using > pbuilder login, installing A's debs manually, running > pbuilder-satisfydepends, and then run dpkg-buildpackage, but I'm > wondering whether there is a better/usual way to do this. Any > suggestions would be welcome.
You can always add your own repository to the /etc/pbuilderrc. If you don't have time to create your own, you can use mentors.debian.net, that's what I do usually. > Also, when A and B are ready to be uploaded into unstable, I am > assuming that, as long as A is uploaded first, there's no reason not > to upload them together. Of course, B won't be able to built from > source until its build dependencies can be satisfied, which won't > happen until A is built. Would it be useful to wait a few days > between uploading A and B? The perfect solution would be to wait for ftp-master approval of the B package and then upload A package, but approval could take few weeks. I think that delay between uploads is a good idea. > If B fails to build from source, is it > the case that manual intervention is then required to get it to retry, > or does this happen automatically? Thanks again for any > clarification. That depends on the reason of not-building. What reasons do you expect? regards fEnIo -- _ Bartosz Fenski | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp:0x13fefc40 | IRC:fEnIo _|_|_ 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - w. malopolskie - Polska (0 0) phone:+48602383548 | Slackware - the weakest link ooO--(_)--Ooo http://skawina.eu.org | JID:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | RLU:172001
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