apt-mirror: contains ubuntu settings, not rebuilt correctly?
Hi. I was going through reproducible build logs of Trisquel packages, as you would normally do on a Saturday evening, and stumbled on a diff for the apt-mirror package, see diffoscope output:
As you can see, the /etc/apt/mirror.list file differs, and indeed here is what happens on my aramo system:
jas@kaka:~$ sudo apt-get install apt-mirror
...
Läs:1 http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/trisquel/packages aramo/main amd64 apt-mirror all 0.5.4-1+11.0trisquel3 [14,6 kB]
...
jas@kaka:~$ cat /etc/apt/mirror.list
############# config ##################
#
# set base_path /var/spool/apt-mirror
#
# set mirror_path $base_path/mirror
# set skel_path $base_path/skel
# set var_path $base_path/var
# set cleanscript $var_path/clean.sh
# set defaultarch <running host architecture>
# set postmirror_script $var_path/postmirror.sh
# set run_postmirror 0
set nthreads 20
set _tilde 0
#
############# end config ##############
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
#deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
#deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
clean http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
jas@kaka:~$ The helper script is here:
https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/package-helpers/-/blob/aramo/helpers/make-apt-mirror
And the debian/rules settings are here:
https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-mirror/tree/debian/rules
Notice this part:
DIST ?= $(shell lsb_release -si)
...
sed "s#@CODENAME@#$(CODENAME)#" debian/$(DIST)-mirror.list > debian/apt-mirror/etc/apt/mirror.listThis suggests that the content of Trisquel-mirror.list from
should have been put into the binary apt-mirror package, if the DIST variable is set correctly to Trisquel, as I'm hoping it should be for packages built for Trisquel? I'm rebuilding the package on a Trisquel system so it populates it properly.
Was Trisquel's apt-mirror binary package built on a Ubuntu system?
Rebuilding the package on a Trisquel system should fix the binary apt-mirror package to use Trisquel settings.
Alternatively, just patch the package to unconditionally use the Trisquel mirror list regardless of platform it is built on. It seems a bit odd that packages behave different depending on which platform it is built on,. OTOH, this seems intentional because it does the right thing inside Debian and Ubuntu.
/Simon