Bug#434113: pbuilder: Wrong --arch option handling?

[Mattia Rizzolo]

control: tags -1 + pending

On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 06:29:35PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> I'd like to pass --arch=amd64 to debootstrap, but it looks like having
> the following in /root/.pbuilderrc doesn't work properly:
> | DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS="--arch=amd64"
> (either with or without the second '=' sign)
> 
> | # pbuilder --create --debootstrap debootstrap
> | Distribution is sid.
> | Building the build environment
> |  -> running debootstrap
> | /usr/sbin/debootstrap
> | debootstrap received: --arch=amd64 sid . http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian
> (I added a print "$@" at the top of the script)
> | E: No such script: http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian
> | pbuilder: debootstrap failed
> |  -> Aborting with an error
> |  -> cleaning the build env 
> |     -> removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build//7398 and its subdirectories
> 
> I deleted /root/.pbuilderrc, and tried the following:
> | # pbuilder --create --debootstrap debootstrap --debootstrapopts "--arch amd64"
> | W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist
> | Distribution is sid.
> | Building the build environment
> |  -> running debootstrap
> | /usr/sbin/debootstrap
> | debootstrap received: --variant=buildd --arch amd64 sid . http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian
> | E: No such script: http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian
> | pbuilder: debootstrap failed
> |  -> Aborting with an error
> |  -> cleaning the build env 
> |     -> removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build//7470 and its subdirectories


I don't even know whether in 2007 this option was available, but at
least now there is the --architecture flag available in pbuilder that is
used just for this, and the value is passed as-is to debootstrap.
anyway, I tried to improve the manpage a bit more :)

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