Procedure 2.2.  Setting up PBuilder/COWBuilder

1. A ~/.pbuilderrc for multiple distributions

   Put the following in ~/.pbuilderrc

   # This is to enable building packages for multiple distributions
   # Note: it doesn't work for cowbuilder.
   #       to get cowbuilder to work, use a wrapper that sets environment variables
   #       like DISTRIBUTION and MIRRORSITE before it starts cowbuilder, because they
   #       never get to cowbuilder if they are only set from within pbuilder, as is
   #       the case when they are set in this file
   
   #Setting PDEBUILD to 'cowbuilder' has no effect, although the manpage of pbuilderrc says it should
   #PDEBUILD_PBUILDER=pbuilder
   #PDEBUILD_PBUILDER=cowbuilder
   
   if [ -n "${DIST}" ]; then
       echo ".pbuilderrc detects DIST ${DIST}, while DISTRIBUTION is ${DISTRIBUTION}"
       DISTRIBUTION=$DIST
       case ${DIST} in
           'lenny'|'squeeze'|'wheezy'|'sid' )
               MIRRORSITE=http://osmirror.rug.nl/debian
               echo "set MIRRORSITE to ${MIRRORSITE}"
               ;;
           'lucid'|'maverick'|'natty'|'oneiric'|'precise' )
               MIRRORSITE=http://osmirror.rug.nl/ubuntu
               echo "set MIRRORSITE to ${MIRRORSITE}"
               ;;
       esac
       BASETGZ="$(dirname $BASETGZ)/$DIST-base.tgz"
       BUILDRESULT="/var/cache/pbuilder/$DIST/result/"
       APTCACHE="/var/cache/pbuilder/$DIST/aptcache/"
   fi
   
   	    

   Yes, the BASEPATH is for cowbuilder. And no, we 're not using cowbuilder here.

2. Creating PBuilder tarballs

   1. For Ubuntu

      
        
jurjen@cit-zb-3-53:~$ sudo -s
root@cit-zb-3-53:~# for D in lucid maverick natty oneiric precise ; do DIST=${D} pbuilder --create --debootstrap debootstrap --debootstrapopts --keyring=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg || break ; done
  
      

   2. For Debian

      
        
root@cit-zb-3-53:~# for D in lenny squeeze wheezy sid ; do DIST=${D} pbuilder --create --debootstrap debootstrap --debootstrapopts --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg || break ; done
  
      

      	Note
      	On Ubuntu, one also needs: sudo DIST=precise pbuilder --update --components "main restricted universe multiverse" --override-config lest pdebuild start complaining about packages being virtual that are not virtual at all. That's just an indication that it cannot find said packages.