Bug#827206: pbuilder: pre-installed eatmydata removed

[Thorsten Glaser]

Mattia Rizzolo dixit:

>If the binary is not installed it just disables eatmydata... (yes, if
        on the^host                             ^and uninstalls

>> I have a wrapper script that invokes cowbuilder with the library
>> already.
>
>so i used to have.

I still require that, as I do (not any more so) regular work on
multiple distros and releases, both source and target.

>> Can you please just disable all eatmydata handling in pbuilder
>> (install, remove, use) if [[ $LD_PRELOAD = *eatmydata* ]] ?
>
>that would be ugly, expecially considering how the thing is wired in.

Why?

>I can (and probably will) change remove_package() to not remove packages
>that are also list in EXTRAPACKAGES (so, giving EXTRAPACKAGES a

Do remember that $EXTRAPACKAGES can have package- in it, for removal by
means of EXTRAPACKAGES (as REMOVEPACKAGES is broken in some releases).

>"precedence" over REMOVEPACKAGES, currently it's undefined and it relies

I just tested, sarge also supports 'apt-get install packagename-' syntax
so you can just use that and merge the two into one call.

bye,
//mirabilos
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