[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#715020: sbuild: Add support for using qemu-debootstrap for foreign architectures

[Alberto Milone]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.63.0-1cross
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainers,

I would like to be able to tell sbuild-createchroot to use
qemu-debootstrap instead of debootstrap so that, for
example, I can easily create armhf chroots on my amd64 host
system.

I've added support for the --use-qemu-debootstrap argument
in my patch. Let me know if the patch can interest you and/
or if you'd like me to modify it.

Thanks,


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers precise-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'precise-updates'), (500, 'precise-security'), (500, 'precise'), (100, 'precise-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-34-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113ubuntu2
ii  apt-utils       0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.10
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.63.0-1cross
ii  perl            5.14.2-6ubuntu2.3
ii  perl-modules    5.14.2-6ubuntu2.3

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.39ubuntu0.3
ii  fakeroot     1.18.2-1

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
ii  deborphan  <none>
ii  wget       1.13.4-2ubuntu1

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