<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 11:49 PM James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:11 PM James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" target="_blank">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 1:39 PM Roland Ernst <<a href="mailto:rcrernst@gmail.com" target="_blank">rcrernst@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="font-family:monospace"></span></span><span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="font-family:monospace"></span></span><span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="color:rgb(178,104,24);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span></span></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I used this script as root user to copy the debs:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">#! /bin/bash<br><br>rm /usr/share/my_mythtv_repo/*<br>mv ./*.deb /usr/share/my_mythtv_repo<br>mv ./*.dsc /usr/share/my_mythtv_repo<br>mv ./*.changes /usr/share/my_mythtv_repo<br>cd /usr/share/my_mythtv_repo<br>dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Note: The folder /usr/share/my_mythtv_repo/ must exist prior to running that script</span></div><div><br></div><div>And this entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/my_mythtv_repo.list :</div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"># Local build of mythtv, in /usr/share/my_mythtv_repo<br># See <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Personal" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Personal</a><br>deb [trusted=yes] file:/usr/share/my_mythtv_repo ./</span></div><div><br></div><div>But I have not tested it on bookworm.</div><div><br></div><div>Roland<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks, I tried your method on bookworm and I think the results are the same.  The Packaging.gz must not be what it's looking for in apt update:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(84,255,84);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">tv</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">:</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(84,84,255);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">~/build/packaging/deb</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">$ sudo apt update
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<br>Hit:12 <a href="http://security.debian.org/debian-security" target="_blank">http://security.debian.org/debian-security</a> bookworm-security InRelease
<br>Reading package lists... Done
<br><span style="color:rgb(178,104,24);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">N: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/jim/build/packaging/deb/./InRelease' couldn't be accessed by user </span><br>'_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
<br><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(255,84,84);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">E: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Failed to fetch file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb/./Packages  File not found - /home/jim/build/packaging/deb/./Packages (2</span><br>: No such file or directory)
<br><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(255,84,84);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">E: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
</span><br><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(84,255,84);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">jim@debian-mythtv</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">:</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(84,84,255);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">~/build/packaging/deb</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">$</span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">Jim A</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I just tested your packaging method on a Bullseye system and it worked as expected.  So something has changed on bookworm that needs to be changed in this process.  I have no clue as to what, though.</div><div><br></div><div>Jim A<br> </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Jim,</div><div>this is actually an access rights problem.</div><div>Modern Linux distributions forbid a user to access another user's home folder. <br></div><div>And this is exactly what your terminal output reports:<br><span style="font-family:monospace"><span class="gmail-im"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">file '/home/jim/build/packaging/deb/./InRelease' couldn't be accessed by user </span>'_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) <br></span></span></div><div><br></div><div>The user `_apt` does not have access to your home folder.<br></div><div>In your second run on Debian bookworm (with the folder <span class="gmail-im"><span style="font-family:monospace">/usr/share/my_mythtv_repo)</span></span>, you forgot to remove the <br></div><div>the sources.list entry in the file `mythtv.list` for your home folder:<br></div><div><pre><span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">deb [trusted=yes] file:///home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./<br></span></span></pre><pre><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif">This is why you got the same error.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></pre></div><div>Please make sure that the folder <span style="font-family:monospace">/usr/share/my_mythtv_repo</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">and it's files has read access to everyone.<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">HTH,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Roland<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div></div>