[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#678831: sbuild: Hardly usable with interactive authentication

[Julian Andres Klode]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.63.1-1
Severity: normal

sbuild and its tools are hardly usable on chroots where the current
user is not allowed to be root (e.g. via root-groups). For example,
sbuild-update requires  you to enter your password 14 times just to
perform one apt-get update.

$ sbuild-update -u sid-i386
[schroot] password for root: 
[schroot] password for root: 
[schroot] password for root: 
[schroot] password for root: 
[schroot] password for root: 
[schroot] password for root: 
[schroot] password for root: 
[schroot] password for root: 
[schroot] password for root: 
[schroot] password for root: 
[schroot] password for root: 
sid-i386: Performing update.
[schroot] password for root: 
Get:1 http://localhost sid InRelease [234 kB]
Get:2 http://localhost sid/main i386 Packages [6097 kB]
Get:3 http://localhost sid/main Translation-en [4007 kB]
Fetched 10.3 MB in 7s (1322 kB/s)                                                                                                                    
Reading package lists... Done
[schroot] password for root: 
[schroot] password for root: 

 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  apt-utils       0.9.7
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.63.1-1
ii  perl            5.14.2-12
ii  perl-modules    5.14.2-12

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.41
ii  fakeroot     1.18.4-2

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
ii  deborphan  1.7.28.7
ii  wget       1.13.4-3

-- no debconf information

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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