Bug#361362: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#361362: pbuilder: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS not supported (?)

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

> > You might want to try out 
> > 
> > 	sudo /usr/bin/env
> > 
> > too.
> > 
> > Sudo has changed behavior in 1.6.8p12-2. 
> 
> Yeah, I noticed that afterwards. I should have checked there before.
> Anyways, this means that now there is no way to pass DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
> to dpkg-buildpackage out-of-the-box. Maybe it would be a wishlist on
> pbuilder to add such an option, or one on dpkg-buildpackage.
> What do you think ?

There are several options

1. document recommended sudo configuration so that users will add the
   required sudo configuration to frequently-used environment
   variables.  DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, PATH(for ccache).

   pdebuild is currently broken by this sudo change, and at least
   requires BUILDRESULTUID and BUILDRESULTGID env vars to pass through
   sudo.

2. document that --configfile option is the recommended way for
   specifying the environment variables, and provide a template
   configfile which just sets DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, with some
   documentation.

3. add an -e/--set-envvar option mirroring that of debuild.


Frankly, pbuilder codewise, 1 is with the least impact.  2 requires
some change to pdebuild, 3 requires more changes and thorough testing.


regards,
	junichi
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