Useless Use of Argument as Argument

       ListShellHook
              This is like ListHook, but the whole argument is given to the shell as
              argument, and the input and output file are stdin and stdout.

              i.e.:
              ListShellHook: cat
              works but does nothing but useless use of a shell and cat, while
              ListShellHook: grep-dctrl -X -S apt -o -X -S dpkg || [ $? -eq 1 ]
              will limit the update rule to packages from the specified source pack‐
              ages.

- Manual page of reprepro(1)

Local Debian Autobuilder

The below steps are to set up a local Debian auto-building system similar to that of Launchpad PPA. Within the steps, it is supposed that a local Debian repository has been already configured as written before.

1 Install `rebuildd', `pbuilder', and `devscripts' packages.

2 Edit /etc/default/rebuildd configuration as follows:

START_REBUILDD=1
DISTS="lenny"

3 Run `sudo rebuildd-init-build-system' and `sudo rebuildd init' to initialize the `pbuilder' chroot environent and `rebuildd' database, respectively.

4 Add the local repository to /etc/apt/sources.list on the host machine (`deb-src http://localhost/debian codedot main').

5 Create /var/www/debian/bin/{addjobs,getsrc,putres} scripts with mode 755 as follows:

( Self-written scripts )

6 Edit /etc/rebuildd/rebuilddrc configuration as follows:

source_cmd = /var/www/debian/bin/getsrc ${d} ${p} ${v}
post_build_cmd = /var/www/debian/bin/putres ${d} ${p} ${v} ${a}
build_cmd = pbuilder build --debbuildopts -b --basetgz /var/cache/pbuilder/${d}-${a}.tgz ${p}_${v}.dsc

7 Append /var/www/debian/conf/distributions with two lines:

Log: logfile
 --changes /var/www/debian/bin/addjobs

8 Create /var/lib/pbuilder/hooks/D50update script with mode 755 as follows:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/apt-get update

9 Run the command `pbuilder --update --basetgz /var/cache/pbuilder/lenny-*.tgz --override-config --othermirror "deb http://localhost/debian codedot main|deb-src http://localhost/debian codedot main"'.

10 Start `rebuildd' service: `sudo /etc/init.d/rebuildd start'.

After the above steps have been done, new source packages uploaded into the local repository (e.g. using `dput local *.change' command) will be automatically built by the system, and resulting binary packages if succeeded will be uploaded into the repository as well.