Procedure

• [1-20 min] If you are not running Debian-based distribution,
  Install NeuroDebian VM; otherwise just add apt
  sources for NeuroDebian repository.

• [<1 min] Install the neurodebian-dev package providing nd* tools:

  sudo apt-get install neurodebian-dev

• [1-5 min] Adjust default configuration (sudo vim
  /etc/neurodebian/cmdsettings.sh) used by nd commands to

  • point cowbuilderroot variable to some directory under
    brain account, e.g. ~brain/debs (should be created by you)
  • remove undesired releases (e.g. deprecated karmic) from
    allnddist and alldist
  • adjust mirror entries to use the Debian mirror and Ubuntu
    mirror of your choice or may be even point to your approx apt-caching server

• [10-60 min] Create the COWs for all releases you left in the
  configuration file:

  sudo nd_adddistall

Building

At this point you should be all set to build packages for all
distributions with a single command. E.g.:

sudo nd_build4all blah_1-1.dsc

should take the .dsc file you provide, and build it for main Debian
sid and all ND-supported releases of Debian and Ubuntu.
nd_build4allnd would build only for the later omitting the vanilla
Debian sid. The highlevel summary either builds succeed or failed get
reported in summary.log in the same directory, pointing to
.build log files for the corresponding architecture/release.

Troubleshooting Failing Build

Provide --hookdir cmdline pbuilder argument to point to a hook
which would get kicked in by pbuilder upon failure, e.g.:

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/neurodebian/neurodebian
sudo nd_build4debianmain *.dsc -- --hookdir $PWD/neurodebian/tools/hooks

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