recipe for building texmacs package with pdebuild

As of Fri Apr 13, 2007, the stable branch of Debian (Etch) carries texmacs 1:1.0.6-10, unstable branch of Debian (Sid) carries texmacs 1:1.0.6-11 . Assuming that pdebuild is used for the first time, the following recipe can be used to build the unstable's texmacs packages on a machine running Debian Etch (stable).

$cp /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-distribution.sh ~/bin/pbuilder-sid
$mkdir -p ~/pbuilder/result
$sudo aptitude install cdebootstrap
$pbuilder-sid create # if second time, use 'pbuilder-sid update'

$cat ~/bin/pdebuild-distribution.sh
#!/bin/sh

DISTRIBUTION=`basename $0 | cut -f2 -d '-'`
BASE_DIR="$HOME/pbuilder"
pdebuild --buildsourceroot fakeroot \
  --buildresult $BASE_DIR/result \
  -- --basetgz $BASE_DIR/$DISTRIBUTION-base.tgz \
  --distribution $DISTRIBUTION $@

$cp ~/bin/pdebuild-distribution.sh ~/bin/pdebuild-sid
$chmod +x ~/bin/pdebuild-sid
$cd ~/practice/
$wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/texmacs/texmacs_1.0.6-11.dsc
$wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/texmacs/texmacs_1.0.6.orig.tar.gz
$wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/texmacs/texmacs_1.0.6-11.diff.gz
$dpkg-source -x texmacs_1.0.6-11.dsc
$cd texmacs-1.0.6
$pdebuild-sid

The commands can be changed accordingly for other packages as well as for distributions other than sid. The ~/bin/pdebuild-distribution.sh performs similar function for pdebuild as /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-distribution.sh does for pbuilder.

Tested on Debian Etch, using pbuilder 0.161