Ubuntu – How to use local .deb files in the pbuilder builds

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Often I need to create packages which another package depend on (i.e. build dependencies). Instead of having all those packages first being build in my ppa (which can sometimes take some time), I would like to use the results directory from pbuilder as a source for the pbuilder itself.

How can I do this? Can I do this via a hook?

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You can stick them in a simple repo created with dpkg-scanpackages and make that available via apache. Then update pbuilder's apt config to use your repo.

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Ubuntu – pbuilder-dist precise build *.dsc fails

You first need to create a pbuilder instance locally. To do that, run the command:

pbuilder-dist precise create

This will create the .pbuilderrc and the ~/pbuilder/precise-base.tgz that you are missing.

After that, you can build your .dsc as normal:

pbuilder-dist precise build ../gedit_3.1.1-0ubuntu4.dsc

Ubuntu – How to set version numbers and package file names via dpkg-buildpackge for automated builds on a build server

Have a look at git-buildpackage:

Customizing snapshot numbers

If the auto incrementing of the snapshot number doesn't suite you needs you can give any python expression that evaluates to a positive integer to calculate the new snapshot number:
gbp dch -S -a --snapshot-number=1  
gbp dch -S -a --snapshot-number='snapshot + 2'
gbp dch -S -a --snapshot-number='os.popen("git-log --pretty=oneline | wc -l").readlines()[0]'
gbp dch -S -a --snapshot-number=`git-log --pretty=oneline debian/0.3.3 | wc -l`
You can also add the snapshot-number calculation to gbp.conf:
[DEFAULT]
snapshot-number = os.popen("git-log --pretty=oneline | wc -l").readlines()[0]

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Customizing snapshot numbers

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