Bug#836451: pbuilder: cdebootstrap: unrecognized option '--force-check-gpg'

[Mattia Rizzolo]

control: severity -1 minor

On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 12:41:15PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Setting up a pbuilder chroot with cdebootstrap fails:
> 
> ,----
> | # pbuilder create --debootstrap cdebootstrap 
> | I: Distribution is sid.
> | I: Current time: Sat Sep  3 12:33:51 CEST 2016
> | I: pbuilder-time-stamp: 1472898831
> | I: Building the build environment
> | I: running cdebootstrap
> | /usr/bin/cdebootstrap
> | cdebootstrap: unrecognized option '--force-check-gpg'
> | Try `cdebootstrap --help' for more information.
> | E: cdebootstrap failed
> | W: Aborting with an error
> | I: cleaning the build env 
> | I: removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build/18627 and its subdirectories
> `----

Well, then go change DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS too.

That's currently not possible to do by the command line (as
--debootstrapopts only *adds* flags to it).
Would you find useful if --debootstrapots behaved like --debbuildopts
where an empty string resets the variable?  Then you could do
    pbuilder create --debotstrap cdebootstrap --debootstrapopts '' --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd
without having to change pbuilderrc.


Note that I don't consider this a bug, really.  I personally find
--force-check-gpg quite a must and I am impressed we got without it for
so long, so that's not going to go away.
I keep this bug open to understand whether a mean to reset
DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS via cli is welcomed or not.

> This is particularly bad because debootstrap cannot currently be used
> to create a sid chroot either (see #836446).  Oh well. :-(

and cdebootstrap can?  :O interesting…

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