Control: tag -1 + pending Hi,
your concerns were entirely correct. I now fixed the issue in commit
a921e32e6c850a90154f4d5237057f557c23e551 like this:
Do not unconditionally read standard input
mmdebstrap used to attempt reading stdin if it was not a tty. This leads
to unexpected behaviour when mmdebstrap is used through ssh without a
pseudo-terminal allocated like so:
$ ssh remote mmdebstrap unstable /output/dir http://mirror
This will stall forever, waiting for data on standard input. Or
consider:
$ ssh remote << END
> somecommand
> mmdebstrap unstable /output/dir http://mirror
> othercommand
END
This will make mmdebstrap read "othercommand" and everything that
follows as a sources.list entry. To prevent this unexpected behaviour,
the following ways to use mmdebstrap will not be supported anymore:
$ mmdebstrap unstable /output/dir < sources.list
$ mmdebstrap unstable /output/dir http://mirror < sources.list
Instead, one must now explicitly pass "-" if one wants mmdebstrap to
read from stdin:
$ mmdebstrap unstable /output/dir - < sources.list
$ mmdebstrap unstable /output/dir http://mirror - < sources.list
I guess this fixed all of the concerns you raised in your bug report.
Thanks!
cheers, josch
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