Cross compiling deb packages on Hudson

This guide will help setting up cross compilation and packaging i386 and amd64 deb packages for the following distros:

1. Debian testing (Squeeze)
2. Debian unstable (Sid)
3. Ubuntu Karmic
4. Ubuntu Lucid

Setting up pbuilder

1. Firstly, install pbuilder

   sudo apt-get install pbuilder

2. Then place this config to /etc/pbuilderrc

# Codenames for Debian suites according to their alias. Update these when # needed. UNSTABLE_CODENAME="sid" TESTING_CODENAME="squeeze" STABLE_CODENAME="lenny" STABLE_BACKPORTS_SUITE="$STABLE_CODENAME-backports" # List of Debian suites. DEBIAN_SUITES=($UNSTABLE_CODENAME $TESTING_CODENAME $STABLE_CODENAME "unstable" "testing" "stable") # List of Ubuntu suites. Update these when needed. UBUNTU_SUITES=("lucid" "karmic" "jaunty" "intrepid" "hardy") # Mirrors to use. Update these to your preferred mirror. DEBIAN_MIRROR="ftp.de.debian.org" UBUNTU_MIRROR="ubuntu.mirror.tudos.de" # Optionally change Debian release states in $DIST to their names. case "$DIST" in unstable) DIST="$UNSTABLE_CODENAME" ;; testing) DIST="$TESTING_CODENAME" ;; stable) DIST="$STABLE_CODENAME" ;; esac # Optionally set the architecture to the host architecture if none set. Note # that you can set your own default (i.e. ${ARCH:="i386"}). #: ${ARCH:="$(dpkg --print-architecture)"} NAME="$DIST" if [ -n "${ARCH}" ]; then NAME="$NAME-$ARCH" ARCHITECTURE="$ARCH" fi BASETGZ="/var/cache/pbuilder/$NAME-base.tgz" # Optionally, set BASEPATH (and not BASETGZ) if using cowbuilder # BASEPATH="/var/cache/pbuilder/$NAME/base.cow/" DISTRIBUTION="$DIST" BUILDRESULT="`pwd`/debian/$NAME/" APTCACHE="/var/cache/pbuilder/$NAME/aptcache/" BUILDPLACE="/var/cache/pbuilder/build/" # Create here as pbuilder creates it with root owner. mkdir -p "$BUILDRESULT" chown -R tomcat6 "$BUILDRESULT" if $(echo ${DEBIAN_SUITES[@]} | grep -q $DIST); then # Debian configuration MIRRORSITE="http://$DEBIAN_MIRROR/debian/" COMPONENTS="main contrib non-free" # This is for enabling backports for the Debian stable suite. #if $(echo "$STABLE_CODENAME stable" | grep -q $DIST); then # EXTRAPACKAGES="$EXTRAPACKAGES debian-backports-keyring" # OTHERMIRROR="$OTHERMIRROR | deb http://www.backports.org/debian $STABLE_BACKPORTS_SUITE $COMPONENTS" #fi elif $(echo ${UBUNTU_SUITES[@]} | grep -q $DIST); then # Ubuntu configuration MIRRORSITE="http://$UBUNTU_MIRROR/ubuntu/" COMPONENTS="main restricted universe multiverse" else echo "Unknown distribution: $DIST" exit 1 fi EXTRAPACKAGES="aptitude" #export DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=athlon #export http_proxy=http://your-proxy:8080/ USEPROC=yes USEDEVPTS=yes USEDEVFS=no # specifying the architecture passes --arch= to debootstrap; the default is # to use the architecture of the host #ARCHITECTURE=`dpkg --print-architecture` # specifying the components of the distribution, for instance to enable all # components on Debian use "main contrib non-free" and on Ubuntu "main # restricted universe multiverse" #COMPONENTS="main" #specify the cache for APT #APTCACHE="/var/cache/pbuilder/aptcache/" APTCACHEHARDLINK="yes" REMOVEPACKAGES="" #HOOKDIR="/usr/lib/pbuilder/hooks" HOOKDIR="" # make debconf not interact with user export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" DEBEMAIL="" #for pbuilder debuild BUILDSOURCEROOTCMD="fakeroot" PBUILDERROOTCMD="sudo -E" # use cowbuilder for pdebuild #PDEBUILD_PBUILDER="cowbuilder" # command to satisfy build-dependencies; the default is an internal shell # implementation which is relatively slow; there are two alternate # implementations, the "experimental" implementation, # "pbuilder-satisfydepends-experimental", which might be useful to pull # packages from experimental or from repositories with a low APT Pin Priority, # and the "aptitude" implementation, which will resolve build-dependencies and # build-conflicts with aptitude which helps dealing with complex cases but does # not support unsigned APT repositories PBUILDERSATISFYDEPENDSCMD="/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends" #Command-line option passed on to dpkg-buildpackage. #DEBBUILDOPTS="-IXXX -iXXX" # Binary-only. DEBBUILDOPTS="-b" #APT configuration files directory APTCONFDIR="" # the username and ID used by pbuilder, inside chroot. Needs fakeroot, really BUILDUSERID=1234 BUILDUSERNAME=pbuilder # BINDMOUNTS is a space separated list of things to mount # inside the chroot. BINDMOUNTS="" # Set the debootstrap variant to 'buildd' type. # DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS[0]='--variant=buildd' # or unset it to make it not a buildd type. unset DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS # Set the PATH I am going to use inside pbuilder: default is "/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" export PATH="/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" # SHELL variable is used inside pbuilder by commands like 'su'; and they need sane values export SHELL=/bin/bash # The name of debootstrap command, you might want "cdebootstrap". DEBOOTSTRAP="debootstrap" # default file extension for pkgname-logfile PKGNAME_LOGFILE_EXTENTION="_$(dpkg --print-architecture).build" # default PKGNAME_LOGFILE PKGNAME_LOGFILE="" # default AUTOCLEANAPTCACHE AUTOCLEANAPTCACHE=""