[Pkg-samba-maint] mini-dinstall on alioth

[Luk Claes]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> During SambaXP, Luk began setting up mini-dinstall on alioth so that
> we can upload unofficial packages in an incoming directory there and
> then have them properly installed in an apt-get'able archive.
> 
> However, I'm having problems there.
> 
> I did put files in incoming:
> 
> bubulle at alioth:/org/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/groups/pkg-samba$ ls -l htdocs/packages/mini-dinstall/incoming/
> total 68268
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle   563232 2009-04-24 05:30 libpam-smbpass_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  1205068 2009-04-24 05:30 libsmbclient_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  1829990 2009-04-24 05:30 libsmbclient-dev_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle    78372 2009-04-24 05:30 libwbclient0_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle   405301 2009-04-24 05:30 samba_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1.diff.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bubulle bubulle     1860 2009-04-24 05:37 samba_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1.dsc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bubulle bubulle     6637 2009-04-24 05:30 samba_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.changes
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  4327278 2009-04-24 05:30 samba_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle 24399021 2009-04-24 05:30 samba_3.2.11.orig.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  3428358 2009-04-24 05:30 samba-common_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  2089928 2009-04-24 05:30 samba-dbg_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  7977940 2009-04-24 05:30 samba-doc_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_all.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  6695690 2009-04-24 05:30 samba-doc-pdf_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_all.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  5085078 2009-04-24 05:30 samba-tools_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  6340236 2009-04-24 05:30 smbclient_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  1360492 2009-04-24 05:30 smbfs_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle   992778 2009-04-24 05:30 swat_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  2952632 2009-04-24 05:30 winbind_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.deb
> 
> 
> ...running mini-dinstall fails:
> 
> mini-dinstall [1101789520] ERROR: Unable to install "/org/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/groups/pkg-samba/htdocs/packages/mini-dinstall/incoming/samba_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.changes"; adding to screwed list
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./mini-dinstall", line 498, in run
>   File "./mini-dinstall", line 552, in _install_changefile
> DinstallException: 'Unknown distribution "lenny-backports" in "/org/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/groups/pkg-samba/htdocs/packages/mini-dinstall/incoming/samba_3.2.11-1~unoff50+1_i386.changes"'
> 
> 
> Luk, any hints, there?

I already feared that would be the case, though I wanted it to be tested 
first. mini-dinstall is not very flexible regarding it's 
'distributions', though I'll make it work (probably tomorrow or one of 
the next days) and try to convince the maintainers to make it more flexible.

Cheers

Luk