How to build a single Qubes package on plain Debian?

Patrick Schleizer

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How to build a single Qubes package on plain Debian? I.e. in a Qubes
Debian template?

I wanted to work on the following:
Debian Templates: 'su -' asks for password
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1128

It would help with debugging, if I could just build inside a Qubes
Debian template. I.e. outside of Qubes Builder.

Could you please provide instructions on how to do that?

As a related note, I think the dependency xserver-xorg-dev is missing.
Created a pull request for it.:
https://github.com/marmarek/qubes-core-agent-linux/pull/30

Tried 'make all'. Still failing. [1]

Cheers,
Patrick

[1]
make all
make -C misc
make[1]: Entering directory
'/home/user/sourcesother/Qubes/qubes-core-agent-linux/misc'
python -m compileall .
Listing . ...
python -O -m compileall .
Listing . ...
gcc -o close-window close-window.c -lX11
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/home/user/sourcesother/Qubes/qubes-core-agent-linux/misc'
make -C qrexec
make[1]: Entering directory
'/home/user/sourcesother/Qubes/qubes-core-agent-linux/qrexec'
gcc -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pie -fPIC `pkg-config --cflags
vchan-` -c -o qrexec-agent.o qrexec-agent.c
Package vchan- was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `vchan-.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'vchan-' found
qrexec-agent.c:39:22: fatal error: libvchan.h: No such file or directory
#include <libvchan.h>
^
compilation terminated.
<builtin>: recipe for target 'qrexec-agent.o' failed
make[1]: *** [qrexec-agent.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/home/user/sourcesother/Qubes/qubes-core-agent-linux/qrexec'
Makefile:47: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

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Patrick Schleizer:

> How to build a single Qubes package on plain Debian? I.e. in a
> Qubes Debian template?
>
> I wanted to work on the following: Debian Templates: 'su -' asks
> for password https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1128
>
> It would help with debugging, if I could just build inside a Qubes
> Debian template. I.e. outside of Qubes Builder.

Haven't verified if it works for every package but for me
BACKEND_VMM=xen dpkg-buildpackage
always worked.

Patrick Schleizer

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Sep 13, 2015, 6:14:35 AM9/13/15

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HW42:

> Haven't verified if it works for every package but for me
> BACKEND_VMM=xen dpkg-buildpackage
> always worked.

That works better. Getting an error about a missing upstream tarball. Is
there a shortcut / canonical way to create one?

Cheers,
Patrick

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BACKEND_VMM=xen dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg-buildpackage: source package qubes-core-agent
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 3.0.16-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution wheezy
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
<marm...@invisiblethingslab.com>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
dpkg-source --before-build qubes-core-agent-linux
dpkg-source: info: using options from
qubes-core-agent-linux/debian/source/options:
--extend-diff-ignore=(^|/)(.git/.*)$ --extend-diff-ignore=(^|/)(deb/.*)$
--extend-diff-ignore=(^|/)(pkgs/.*)$ --extend-diff-ignore=(^|/)(rpm/.*)$
fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean --with systemd
dh_testdir
dh_auto_clean
make[1]: Entering directory
'/home/user/sourcesother/Qubes/qubes-core-agent-linux'
make -C misc clean
make[2]: Entering directory
'/home/user/sourcesother/Qubes/qubes-core-agent-linux/misc'
rm -f xenstore-watch *.o *~ *.pyc *.pyo
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/home/user/sourcesother/Qubes/qubes-core-agent-linux/misc'
make -C qrexec clean
make[2]: Entering directory
'/home/user/sourcesother/Qubes/qubes-core-agent-linux/qrexec'
rm -f *.o *~ qrexec-agent qrexec-client-vm
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/home/user/sourcesother/Qubes/qubes-core-agent-linux/qrexec'
make -C qubes-rpc clean
make[2]: Entering directory
'/home/user/sourcesother/Qubes/qubes-core-agent-linux/qubes-rpc'
rm -f qopen-in-vm qfile-agent qfile-unpacker tar2qfile vm-file-editor *.o *~
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/home/user/sourcesother/Qubes/qubes-core-agent-linux/qubes-rpc'
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/home/user/sourcesother/Qubes/qubes-core-agent-linux'
dh_clean
dpkg-source -b qubes-core-agent-linux
dpkg-source: info: using options from
qubes-core-agent-linux/debian/source/options:
--extend-diff-ignore=(^|/)(.git/.*)$ --extend-diff-ignore=(^|/)(deb/.*)$
--extend-diff-ignore=(^|/)(pkgs/.*)$ --extend-diff-ignore=(^|/)(rpm/.*)$
dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no
upstream tarball found at
../qubes-core-agent_3.0.16.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz}
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b qubes-core-agent-linux gave
error exit status 255

Marek Marczykowski-Górecki

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Sep 13, 2015, 6:17:06 AM9/13/15

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On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 08:32:48AM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> HW42:
> > Haven't verified if it works for every package but for me
> > BACKEND_VMM=xen dpkg-buildpackage
> > always worked.
>
> That works better. Getting an error about a missing upstream tarball. Is
> there a shortcut / canonical way to create one?

It is created by tar call in Makefile.builder. You can call it manually
(providing all the missing variables...), or simply skip the source package
(dpkg-buildpackage -b).

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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Patrick Schleizer

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Sep 13, 2015, 12:35:01 PM9/13/15

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Marek Marczykowski-Górecki:

> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 08:32:48AM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
>> HW42:
>>> Haven't verified if it works for every package but for me
>>> BACKEND_VMM=xen dpkg-buildpackage
>>> always worked.
>
>> That works better. Getting an error about a missing upstream tarball. Is
>> there a shortcut / canonical way to create one?
>
> It is created by tar call in Makefile.builder. You can call it manually
> (providing all the missing variables...), or simply skip the source package
> (dpkg-buildpackage -b).

BACKEND_VMM=xen dpkg-buildpackage -b

Works for me.

Thanks!

Patrick

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