Bug#598316: pbuilder: mirrorsite is not preseedable

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.199
Severity: normal

I'd to preseed pbuilder/mirrorsite with a local mirror, but on the
first installation pbuilder still displays the debconf error screen
pbuilder/nomirror. Looks like the pbuilder.config script unconditionally
overwrites the pbuilder/mirrorsite entry if no /etc/pbuilderrc exists -
which is true on initial install.

Your grep expression to get an URL from sources.list should take into
account arbitrary amounts of whitespace (' ', '\t') between 'deb' and
'http'. I have tabs there (better alignment with the deb-src entries),
so I end up with your fallback mirror.

I think, bug
    #161778: [WILL NOT FIX UNLESS USE OF DEBCONF IS NECESSARY] no need
    to ship /etc/pbuilderrc, use debconf to generate default config file.
should be closed since this was fixed, so will-not-fix no longer
applies.

Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (130, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  cdebootstrap                  0.5.6      Bootstrap a Debian system
ii  coreutils                     8.5-1      GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.35     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   3.4        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.23     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  wget                          1.12-2.1   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  devscripts                    2.10.68    scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                      1.14.4-1   Gives a fake root environment
ii  sudo                          1.7.4p4-2  Provide limited super user privile

Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
ii  cowdancer                     0.61       Copy-on-write directory tree utili
ii  gdebi-core                    0.6.3      Simple tool to install deb files
ii  pbuilder-uml                  0.199      user-mode-linux version of pbuilde

-- debconf information excluded