Setup environment to follow tutorial

[general-kroll-4-life]

Hi @stapelberg

Background

I am trying to package my repository (stackql) for source distribution and before doing so I followed the dh-make-golang tutorial, using v0.7.0 of dh-make-golang, on an ubuntu 22.04 VM.

The issue

When I run the gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder step, I get the stuff below in Figure E1. I've tried setting up cowbuilder and the suggestions rooted at #48, to no avail.

A couple of things I naively ask:

• Can you please guide me how to set up a machine or container so that the tutorial will work for me?
• Is there some end to end automation of the entire process now available?

Many Thanks,

Kieran

Supporting evidence

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$ gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder
gbp:info: Building with (cowbuilder) for debian_sid
gbp:info: Performing the build
Building with cowbuilder for distribution debian_sid
W: /home/azureuser/.pbuilderrc does not exist
I: using cowbuilder as pbuilder
dh clean --builddirectory=_build --buildsystem=golang
   dh_auto_clean -O--builddirectory=_build -O--buildsystem=golang
   dh_autoreconf_clean -O--builddirectory=_build -O--buildsystem=golang
   dh_clean -O--builddirectory=_build -O--buildsystem=golang
dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (quilt)'
dpkg-source: info: building golang-github-jacobsa-ratelimit using existing ./golang-github-jacobsa-ratelimit_0.0~git20150904.f5e4703.orig.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: building golang-github-jacobsa-ratelimit in golang-github-jacobsa-ratelimit_0.0~git20150904.f5e4703-1.debian.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: building golang-github-jacobsa-ratelimit in golang-github-jacobsa-ratelimit_0.0~git20150904.f5e4703-1.dsc
I: Generated dsc will be overwritten by build result; not generating changes file
I: Copying COW directory
I: forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.81726
I: forking: cp -al /var/cache/pbuilder/base-debian_sid.cow /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.81726
I: unlink for ilistfile /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.81726/.ilist failed, it didn't exist?
I: forking: chroot /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.81726 cowdancer-ilistcreate /.ilist 'find . -xdev -path ./home -prune -o \( \( -type l -o -type f \) -a -links +1 -print0 \) | xargs -0 stat --format '%d %i ''
chroot: failed to run command 'cowdancer-ilistcreate': No such file or directory
W: cowdancer-ilistcreate failed to run within chroot, falling back to old method
stat: missing operand
Try 'stat --help' for more information.
E: cowbuilder: pclose returned non-zero, probably the directory contains no hardlinked file, don't bother using cow-shell here.
I: Invoking pbuilder
I: forking: pbuilder build --debbuildopts  --debbuildopts  --buildplace /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.81726 --buildresult /home/azureuser/demo/ratelimit --mirror http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ --distribution devel --no-targz --internal-chrootexec 'chroot /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.81726 cow-shell' /home/azureuser/demo/ratelimit/golang-github-jacobsa-ratelimit_0.0~git20150904.f5e4703-1.dsc
W: /home/azureuser/.pbuilderrc does not exist
I: Running in no-targz mode
I: pbuilder: network access will be disabled during build
I: Current time: Wed Aug 28 22:25:37 UTC 2024
I: pbuilder-time-stamp: 1724883937
I: copying local configuration
cp: cannot create regular file '/var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.81726/etc/hosts': No such file or directory
I: Cleaning COW directory
I: forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.81726
gbp:error: 'git-pbuilder' failed: it exited with 1

Figure E1: Errors from the gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder step.

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