[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#838768: sbuild-createchroot should let me re-create an existing chroot/tarball

[Julien Cristau]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 17:18:50 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:

> Package: sbuild
> Version: 0.71.0-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> I want to be able to update a sbuild chroot by re-creating the tarball
> from scratch, rather than running sbuild-update.  sbuild-createchroot
> used to let me do that by creating a new tarball and deleting the new
> duplicate config, but that doesn't seem to work anymore:
> chroot with name sid-amd64-sbuild already exists at /usr/sbin/sbuild-createchroot line 214, <$pipe> line 7.
> 
> Basically I'd like to have the opposite of --setup-only, where the
> /etc/schroot/chroot.d is left unchanged, but I just get a newly-built
> tarball.
> 
I managed to get the result I wanted with the --chroot-suffix option.

Cheers,
Julien