[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#545215: Please support saving chroot to tarball in sbuild-createchroot

[Andres Mejia]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.59.0-1
Severity: wishlist

I would like sbuild-createchroot to be able to handle building a chroot and then
saving it to a tarball for later reuse.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  libsbuild-perl                0.59.0-1   Tool for building Debian binary pa
ii  perl                          5.10.0-25  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules                  5.10.0-25  Core Perl modules

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.15     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  fakeroot                      1.13       Gives a fake root environment

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
ii  deborphan                     1.7.28     program that can find unused packa
ii  wget                          1.11.4-4   retrieves files from the web

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