Comment, partly to document nasty build issue but also to force a

version number update as a test case.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=5806

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/buildtools/rpki-pbuilder.py b/buildtools/rpki-pbuilder.py
index d934c9d9..1fc09354 100644
--- a/buildtools/rpki-pbuilder.py
+++ b/buildtools/rpki-pbuilder.py
@@ -49,6 +49,17 @@ ubu_env  = dict(os.environ,
                 OTHERMIRROR = "deb http://download.rpki.net/APT/ubuntu precise main")
 deb_env  = os.environ
 
+# Getting this to work right also required adding:
+#
+#   DEBBUILDOPTS="-b"
+#
+# to /etc/pbuilderrc; without this, reprepro (eventually, a year after
+# we set this up) started failing to incorporate some of the built
+# packages, because the regenerated source packages had different
+# checksums than the ones loaded initially.  See:
+#
+# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21563872/reprepro-complains-about-the-generated-pbuilder-debian-tar-gz-archive-md5
+
 log("Starting")
 
 try: