[ubuntu-dev] Bug#652000: /usr/bin/pbuilder-dist: pbuilder-dist ignores environment and has no way to set a custom pbuilderrc

[Stefano Rivera]

Hi Karl (2011.12.22_00:31:33_+0200)
> > Lowering the severity, as this is about a minorish feature of one
> > script
> 
> Not finding the bootstraping script isn't really a minor problem in the
> script, its a blocker problem. I don't object to the severity drop
> though.

The bootstrapping script that wasn't packaged in squeeze :P

> pbuilder-dist, a few lines down from where you cut my paste below (Its
> possible I included it in a different email?)
> 
> [...]
> I: Logging to 
> /home/kgoetz/custom-pbuilder/squeeze-armel_result/last_operation.log
> I: Distribution is squeeze.
> I: Building the build environment
> I: running qemu-debootstrap
> E: qemu-debootstrap does not exist, install or change DEBOOTSTRAP option

Ah, that error is coming from pbuilder, just passed through
pbuilder-dist.

> Is there a newer version which doesn't require a newer devscripts, or
> will I have to try and backport devscripts to resolve this?

You can checkout the bzr repo, the pbuilder-dist script from trunk
should work on squeeze (although I can't say I've tested that...)

SR

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