[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#665351: sbuild: make build_dir and log_dir configurable on command line

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.62.6-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I'm currently experimenting with sbuild, coming from a
pbuilder/cowbuilder setup. Something I miss is a way to customize the
build setup from commandline, and especially the build_dir and build_log
part.

I intend to use sbuild for different stuff, and for example for
pkg-xfce, where I usually need to rebuild multiple depending packages,
so I made the build result folder available to the build environement
(using bind mounts), run apt-ftparchive there and feed it as a source to
apt.

That works fine, but right now that means every build share the same
local apt source, which is not nice when I build for
squeeze/wheezy/sid/experimental.

In pbuilder I solve this by using a local pbuilderrc which contains some
shell variable I pass from a wrapper. I can't do that in sbuild because
there's no way to override the config file, nor to pass those options
from command line.

If you need more information about that setup, please ask.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

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

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu1
ii  apt-utils       0.8.15.10
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.62.6-1
ii  perl            5.14.2-9
ii  perl-modules    5.14.2-9

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.39
ii  fakeroot     1.18.2-1

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
ii  deborphan  <none>
ii  wget       1.13.4-2

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