[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#391035: pbuilder: Unknown option --buildresult

[Andreas Tille]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.158
Severity: normal

Hi,

I tried

$ pdebuild --buildresult=`dirname $PWD`
Error: Unknown option [--buildresult=/home/tillea/debian-maintain/schulung/mpi-schulung] was specified 

which conflicts to the text of the manpage.

       --buildresult [Directory for build results]

              The place which build result is stored.

              Note that for pdebuild, buildresult needs to  be  specified  as  pdebuild
              option in the command-line, not as pbuilder option.

              Note  that  the  default  value  for  buildresult  is what is defined for
              pbuilder, /var/cache/pbuilder/result and not ..

The same is true for pbuilder 0.159 from unstable.

I would be happy if there would be any other chance to use ".." as
result directory, but the man page  pbuilderrc.5 says explicitely

       BUILDRESULT=/var/cache/pbuilder/result/
              Specify  the default directory which the build result will be copied over
              to after the building.

              Unlike --buildresult command-line option.  The path is not canonicalized,
              so you should specify a full-path, not a relative path.

BTW, is there anything wrong to use ".."?  I'm just asking this because
pbuilder is that hard to convince to use what seems default for other
building tools.

Kind regards and thanks for maintaining pbuilder

            Andreas.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  cdebootstrap                  0.3.11     Bootstrap a Debian system
ii  coreutils                     5.97-5     The GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                   2.17       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  debootstrap                   0.3.3      Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  gcc                           4:4.1.1-7  The GNU C compiler
ii  wget                          1.10.2-2   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
pn  cowdancer                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  devscripts                    2.9.21     Scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                      1.5.10     Gives a fake root environment
ii  sudo                          1.6.8p12-4 Provide limited super user privile

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