Bug#836940: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#836940: cowbuilder, sbuild: should behave identically in regard to default gnupg installation

Thorsten Glaser tg at mirbsd.de
Wed Sep 7 21:13:44 UTC 2016


Markus Koschany dixit:

>Thanks. Could we make these variants the default in cowbuilder?

Unsure, people *can* use cowbuilder to create normal chroots
for use, just like schroot.

One thing we can do is to document this better in the cowbuilder
manpage (currently only in pbuilder’s at all, and IMHO it belongs
mentioned in the --create option).

Or add a --variant to both pbuilder and cowbuilder that gets
mapped to --debootstraptoptions --variant, and make --create
error out if it’s not given.

One more problem with this is that alternative debootstraps
can be used, which may not have this option. So if we do the
latter, it can only fire with --debootstrap debootstrap (or
some variant of it… remember it’s just a script that can be
renamed…).

bye,
//mirabilos
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