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

[Andres Mejia]

On Monday 07 September 2009 13:32:52 Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 02:56:37PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
> > I would like sbuild-createchroot to be able to handle building a chroot
> > and then saving it to a tarball for later reuse.
> 
> That's doable.  Do you have any suggestion for suitable command
> line options to enable this?
> 
> I guess one needs to choose a name for the tarball, and maybe
> choose whether to delete the original bootstrapped tree as well?

I think we should use the same options as debootstrap to make it consistent. So 
'--make-tarball=FILE' should be the option to make a tarball at FILE. It seems
'--keep-debootstrap-dir' is already an option for sbuild-createchroot. Perhaps 
sbuild-createchroot should have the option '--keep-sbuildchroot-dir' to keep the 
sbuild chroot created (I presume the default would be to delete the chroot if 
making a tarball).
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Regards,
Andres