Bug#333294: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#333294: Info received (A patch for the default mirror)

[Eddy Petrișor]

On 05/03/2008, Junichi Uekawa <dancer at netfort.gr.jp> wrote:
> Hi,

Hello again,

>  Thanks for the patch, it looks promising.

Thanks.

>  > >>  /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc, and newer configuration variables will
>  > >>  be taken from there, so upgrade cases shouldn't cause too much
>  > >>  problem.
>  > >
>  > > Does pbuilder work properly if pbuilderrc is minimalistic (i.e.
>  > > contains only MIRRORSITE=...)?
>  > >
>  > > Then generating a minimal /etc/pbuilderrc with the default sources it
>  > > all that it takes to fix this bug (in the light of my existing work),
>  > > right?
>  >
>  > Still waiting.
>
>
> Looking at the patch, MIRRORSITE=_ will confuse users, maybe something
>  like
>  MIRRORSITE=http://you-have-broken-debconf-configuration.example.com/
>  will be more helpful in finding out what's gone wrong.

I was tempted to leave it completely blank, to avoid complications in
the postinst code, but I will reevaluate this.

>  On the other hand, pbuilder will source /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc
>  before /etc/pbuilderrc, so you can actually leave /etc/pbuilderrc
>  mostly blank, and just fill in, say, MIRRORSITE only.

Excellent! I will change the postinst to do a minimal pbuilderrc, by
default or transform the existing one's MIRRORSITE filed, without
loosing any other information.

Note: I also sent an updated patch, which, it seems, got lost
somewhere along the way. It was dropping needless usage of temp files.
Those changes are visible in my git pbuilder repo[0].


Is it ok if I publish my changes in my git repo[0][1] on alioth and
ask you to pull from there, instead of sending in the BR a patch? Or
do you prefer I send a patch? (I don't plan to develop on pbuilder in
the near future, but I prefer git publishing to BTS publishing).


[0] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/eddyp-guest/pbuilder.git;a=summary

[1] Since the publication of the repo on alioth, I was careful to not
make unneeded commits public and I amended unpublished changes in
order to avoid a long and useless history.
-- 
Regards,
EddyP
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