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Getting Licq to build with pbuilder

Erik Johansson — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:44:53 +0000

I wanted to test that I had specified the correct Build-Depends in my Debian package of Licq 1.5.0-rc2. It seemed like the simplest way to do this was to create a personal builder installation and build the package in that chroot.

So I did:

sudo pbuilder create --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd

Building should then be as simple as executing:

git-buildpackage --git-builder=/usr/share/doc/git-buildpackage/examples/gbp-pbuilder --git-cleaner="fakeroot debian/rules clean"

Or it should have been that simple. Unfortunately the build failed with:

Fatal: no entropy gathering module detected

After some googling and testing; the fix was to add two random devices to the chroot:

sudo pbuilder login --save-after-login
mknod -m 666 /dev/random c 1 8
mknod -m 666 /dev/urandom c 1 9
chmod 666 /dev/null
exit

(The change of permission for /dev/null was needed to avoid getting errors later in the build process.)

Git is not always better than subversion

Erik Johansson — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:14:53 +0000

Yesterday I wished I had used svn instead of git as VCS for Licq’s debian package, when I accidentally deleted my local git clone with lots of commits that I hadn’t pushed…

Luckily I had all the changes in a different format so I didn’t have to redo all the work, but I had to spend time trying to commit the changes in a somewhat logical way.

debian/licq.git mirror on Gitorious

Erik Johansson — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:23:14 +0000

To get better speed and a backup I’ve set up a mirror of debian/licq.git on Gitorious.org.

I don’t really know the best way to do this, but I did it by adding the following line to hooks/post-update:

git push --mirror git@gitorious.org:licq/debian.git

This way the mirror will always be updated when I push to the “real” repository.

Get it by running

% gbp-clone --pristine-tar git://gitorious.org/licq/debian.git

or clone it on Gitorious and send me merge requests

/me is the new Debian maintainer for Licq

Erik Johansson — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:01:01 +0000

Update 2010-10-30: Changed the initial setup to use gbp-clone.

I’m now officially the maintainer of Licq’s Debian packages. Since I’m not a real Debian maintainer, I’m very grateful to Joel Rosdahl who is my sponsor.

Version 1.3.8-1 is coming to a mirror near you as I write this.

The package source is kept in my git repository. To build the package from the git repository, install git-buildpackage and pristine-tar then follow the instructions below.

Initial setup:

% gbp-clone --pristine-tar git://git.ejohansson.se/debian/licq.git

~~% git clone git://git.ejohansson.se/debian/licq.git licq % cd licq licq % git checkout -b pristine-tar origin/pristine-tar licq % git co master~~

To build the latest version:

licq % git-buildpackage --git-export-dir=../build-area

To build a specific version:

licq % git-buildpackage --git-export-dir=../build-area --git-export=debian/1.3.8-1

The final packages will be available in ../build-area.

Later on when you wish to update:

licq % git pull
licq % git-buildpackage ...

The next version will have qt4-gui.

++git;

Erik Johansson — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:07:41 +0000

As all the other cool kids, I’ve also started experimenting with git, the version control system used by many, most notably the Linux kernel developers.

As a test I converted my program that enables the volume knob on Dell USB keyboards. You can find it on my gitweb site.

Also there is the selinux policy module I blogged about in my previous post, and a new one that I had to do to get gitweb to work. Getting gitweb to work also required the git repositories to be properly labelled:

semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_script_ro_t '/home/git(/.*)?'
restorecon -Rv /home/git

Some day I need to figure out the correct syntax for putting file contexts in the policy module.