Bug#409149: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#409149: pdebuild: limitation with pdebuild command (debbuildopts and its -a option)

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

> > Basically, pdebuild needs an '--architecture' option, to override the
> > current architecture, since the architecture information is only
> > available from what's inside chroot, and pdebuild doesn't really know
> > what's inside chroot.
> 
>  I gave some thought to this and while I don't think there's a standard
>  way to retrive the architecture from the chroot, I think we could add
>  it at "pbuilder create" time: the debootstrapping wrapper would write
>  /etc/pbuilder_arch or something similar and we could read that file
>  when parsing build-deps.
> 
>  (But perhaps I don't know about it and there's an easy command to run
>  in the chroot to retrieve the arch.)

One thing is that I really wanted to make pdebuild command not require
the knowledge of chroot; since pdebuild invokes pbuilder, and chroot
is extracted and removed within pbuilder session, outside of control
of pdebuild.

This may need changing.


regards,
	junichi
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