Bug#333294: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#333294: Info received (A patch for the default mirror)
Eddy Petrișor
eddy.petrisor at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 09:15:37 UTC 2008
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>>> If the top line is 'deb file:///', debootstrap will break. I assume
>>>> the only reasonable ones are http://, https://(hmm... would it work
>>>> with base system?), and ftp://.
>>> You assume right. The odd thing is that I remember filtering in only
>>> http and ftp, but I don't see how I managed to loose that change. Will
>>> reimplement it.
>> Done.
>> http://git.debian.org/?p=users/eddyp-guest/pbuilder.git;a=commitdiff;h=9a90f803771a7a5ae498c642002333156b186fef
>
>
> I was thinking over this code this weekend, and I am worried about this one case:
>
> 1. user install pbuilder, lets pbuilder overwrite the config
> 2. user finds that auto-detected value doesn't work (it didn't have the right arch, etc.)
> and modifies /etc/pbuilderrc
>
> 3. user upgrades pbuilder
>
> I have a gut feeling that pbuilder won't ask if it should overwrite
> the config file in 3, and the user is going to end up with a broken
> config.
>
> What do you think?
No, by default, an existing pbuilderrc generates "don't overwrite config" behaviour.
If the user fixes the pbuilderrc file, on upgrade his modification will be preserved.
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Regards,
EddyP
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