Re: pbuilder problems

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Samuel Thibault (2013-06-08 13:34:18)
> Justus Winter, le Sat 08 Jun 2013 13:27:07 +0200, a écrit :
> > I'm trying to setup pbuilder on one of my virtual Hurd
> > systems. Problem is that debootstrap eventually dies:
> 
> I don't think pbuilder has ever been made to work on hurd-i386. There
> are quite a few things to do for a chroot, see
> http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/chroot

I see. This separate translator the page is talking about, does it
have to be a filesystem or would any translator do the trick? remap
mentions something about chroots, is it meant for this? If so, could
you elaborate on its use? I've tried remapping some directories, it
did not work for me.

I'm thinking about making a chroot wrapper or hooking into pbuilder,
I'd love to use it to build packages.

> > I suspect that something funny goes on in the rootfs translator (it's
> > an one filesystem setup, maybe I should create another filesystem to
> > protect the rootfs), b/c I end up with an mostly empty /dev:
> 
> Yes, apparently deboostrap or pbuilder tries to remove the chroot, but
> without taking care that dev in the chroot was actually linked to /dev,
> and thus empties /dev.
> 
> > Not sure if anything else got corrupted,
> 
> Possibly /servers too.
> 
> > Fortunately reinstalling the hurd
> > package fixes this.
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure hurd, or simply running /usr/lib/hurd/setup-translators 
> should work too.

It did. Thanks.

Justus