Fails to test ubuntu packages as debfoster is in universe

Confirmed also when using distribution intrepid:

0m26.1s DUMP:
  Get:1 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu intrepid Release.gpg [189B]
  Get:2 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu intrepid Release [65.9kB]
  Get:3 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu intrepid/main Packages [1256kB]
  Get:4 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu intrepid/restricted Packages [8408B]
  Fetched 1331kB in 11s (115kB/s)
  Reading package lists...
0m26.1s DEBUG: Command ok: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpKAtAhO', 'apt-get', 'update']
0m26.1s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpKAtAhO', 'mount', '-t', 'proc', 'proc', '/proc']
0m26.2s DEBUG: Command ok: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpKAtAhO', 'mount', '-t', 'proc', 'proc', '/proc']
0m26.2s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpKAtAhO', 'apt-get', '-yf', 'upgrade']
0m26.3s DUMP:
  Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
0m26.3s DEBUG: Command ok: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpKAtAhO', 'apt-get', '-yf', 'upgrade']
0m26.3s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpKAtAhO', 'apt-get', 'install', 'debfoster']
0m26.4s DUMP:
  Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  E: Couldn't find package debfoster
0m26.4s ERROR: Command failed (status=100): ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpKAtAhO', 'apt-get', 'install', 'debfoster']
  Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  E: Couldn't find package debfoster

0m26.4s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpKAtAhO', 'umount', '/proc']
0m26.5s DEBUG: Command ok: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpKAtAhO', 'umount', '/proc']
0m27.0s DEBUG: Removed directory tree at /tmp/tmpKAtAhO

Happens on piuparts 0.31ubuntu1

piuparts needs to be fixed to work well on Ubuntu out of the box. This is one of the things. The workaround for this problem is to use the option --skip-minimize. You will probably want to use the option --no-symlinks as well.

Alternatively, you can use the --mirror option: --mirror "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu main universe"

However, --skip-minimize seems to work better when I try things.

I'm working on piuparts to fix this bug and few others not related to piuparts directly but making usage of this tool harder than it should be (dangling symlinks in packages that are installed in piuparts chroot for example) but I most likely won't push it into Karmic as I'd like to spend some time on it and there are workarounds anyway.

This is fixed in natty. From piuparts.py:92

class UbuntuDefaults(Defaults):

    def get_components(self):
        return ["main", "universe", "restricted", "multiverse"]

    def get_mirror(self):
        return [("http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu", self.get_components())]