[Buildd-tools-devel] schroot question

[Roger Leigh]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 01:08:06PM -0500, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 
> > Your home directory is determined using the same mechanism as for a
> > normal login.  i.e. $HOME and pass.pw_dir in the system passwd file.
> > The -d option only changes the directory the command is run in, by
> > chdir()ing to it.  This is independent of the $HOME/passwd home
> > directory, though you can use the -p option to pass $HOME through.

> But that passes through everything, correct?  I wish there were a means to 
> specify environment variables individually on the command line.

-p does pass the entire environment.  You can use the
environment-filter configuration option to restrict what is passed, but
this is not settable on the command-line.

You could do
  HOME=/some/where schroot -p ...
to set $HOME just for the one command, but you'll still get the rest
of the environment as well.


Regards,
Roger

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