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| dobey | how does one copy packages from ubuntu archive into a ppa, on launchpad web site? or does one need to use some cli tool? | 16:27 |
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| sidi | Hitting an issue with a slightly weird package which I suspect might be LP specific. I need one of my packages to have a file in /usr/local/bin/ (can explain why if necessary). I'm currently adding the file to my *install files, overriding dh_usrlocal so it doesn't complain, and dh_gencontrol is failing my package because I have files in /usr/local (build log: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/220540588/buildlog_ubuntu-trusty-i386.libpreload-logger_0.23_BUI | 17:08 |
| sidi | LDING.txt.gz). Works fine on my machine with debuild so not sure why LP refuses it (other than files in /usr/local being very very bad) | 17:08 |
| sidi | hm, silly IRC client... https://launchpadlibrarian.net/220540588/buildlog_ubuntu-trusty-i386.libpreload-logger_0.23_BUILDING.txt.gz | 17:08 |
| dobey | why do you need that in /usr/local/bin? | 17:10 |
| sidi | dobey, i'm using a library for data collection on ubuntu systems (part of a scientific study), that library is incompatible with internals of Chrome's NativeClient and seccomp2 sandboxes (for a lot of reasons, some of which we haven't figured out yet). I'm adding a /usr/local/bin/chromium-browser script that turns the library off and then calls the real chromium | 17:12 |
| sidi | we can provide support to study participants if that doesn't work for them, but I need to start that study before the end of the week or I'm losing some of my funding, so I don't have time to do things the proper way | 17:12 |
| sidi | and running my own chromium-browser package means lots more admin work since it's a package that is often updated, with the risk that participants update their packages before I get to update my own PPA package, go back to the real chromium and end up with a browser that doesn't work any more | 17:13 |
| dobey | i don't know why launchpad builder gives you an error if sbuild works fine locally (you did build with sbuild locally, right?), as i don't know enough about the builder configuration to answer | 17:17 |
| sidi | it does work locally with "debuild" | 17:17 |
| sidi | cjwatson, i'm curious if you know the way out of that one... ^ (TLDR: need a file installed in /usr/local but LP specifically refuses to build packages with files in there) | 17:22 |
| cjwatson | dobey: it's not discoverable, but you can do it from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+copy-packages | 20:55 |
| cjwatson | sidi: NO_PKG_MANGLE=1 dh_builddeb, although that will have some other effects like suppressing changelog stripping and png optimisation | 20:57 |
| cjwatson | sidi: you would be able to reproduce it locally if pkgbinarymangler were in your chroot | 20:57 |
| cjwatson | sidi: there's another approach though, you could install /usr/bin/chromium-browser and use dpkg-divert in your maintainer scripts to divert the real one aside - a little harder to get right but not by very much, and more reliable in the face of things like different PATH ordering | 20:58 |
| sidi | cjwatson, i am totally positive that i didnt understand your last suggestion | 21:05 |
| cjwatson | sidi: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-diversions.html | 21:06 |
| cjwatson | I appreciate you're in a rush, just it may be worth knowing of better approaches | 21:06 |
| sidi | ok, that sounds like the proper way to do things, i'm actually pleased there is a mechanism for it | 21:08 |
| sidi | but let me try the "easy" way first, though | 21:08 |
| sidi | cjwatson, are you saying I should change my rules to override the dh_builddeb step and make sure NO_PKG_MANGLE is set to 1, or I should locally build packages this way and then upload binary packages? | 21:10 |
| cjwatson | sidi: Launchpad will never accept binary package uploads | 21:12 |
| cjwatson | sidi: so I mean the former | 21:12 |
| sidi | Alright, let me try that | 21:13 |
| dobey | you could just "export NO_PKG_MANGLE=1" in debian/rules i guess, no? | 21:17 |
| cjwatson | you could, but I wouldn't. | 21:18 |
| cjwatson | better to be narrow. | 21:19 |
| cjwatson | that variable does things to other stages as well. | 21:19 |
| cjwatson | (notably dh_strip / debugging symbols) | 21:20 |
| dobey | oh | 21:33 |
| sidi | i'm sometimes genuinely amazed by the amount of knowledge you have of debian packaging... | 21:35 |
| sidi | I must've done something stupid, but https://launchpadlibrarian.net/220563791/buildlog_ubuntu-trusty-amd64.libpreload-logger_0.25_BUILDING.txt.gz is what I get with NO_PKG_MANGLE=1 | 21:37 |
| sidi | "dpkg-deb: error: failed to open package info file `debian/libpreload-logger1/DEBIAN/control' for reading: No such file or directory" | 21:37 |
| sidi | Do I need to manually move my control files in my install step? | 21:40 |
| cjwatson | sidi: wuh what | 21:52 |
| cjwatson | sidi: I'll look in a bit, you have a disastrously broken rules file somehow | 21:52 |
| cjwatson | dh_builddeb being called waaaaaay too early | 21:52 |
| cjwatson | sidi: override_dh_builddeb not override dh_builddeb | 21:54 |
| cjwatson | underscore not space | 21:54 |
| cjwatson | if you ever find yourself having to muck about in .../DEBIAN/ directly during a build then you have done something wrong :-) | 21:56 |
| sidi | oh god did I do that again? | 21:58 |
| sidi | cjwatson, i sincerely apologise, i'm not exactly sober at this time of day | 21:58 |
| sidi | cjwatson, seems it's working properly | 22:15 |
| sidi | thank you for being up this late :-) | 22:16 |
| cjwatson | sidi: cool cool | 23:39 |
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