> Sound like a good idea! Gbp currently ships a helper script in examples/ > which could go then, however this script has some things that > git-pbuilder currently lacks: > > * update|create|login options to log into the chroot > * it takes the dist (sid, squeeze, ...) from the script name > > I wonder if we should merge those first? Russ, would you be o.k. with > keeping git-pbuilder up to date in git-buildpackage? We could work with > a submodule but this looks like overkill for a single skript. >
I'll have a look at the script to see what can be done. Currently I rig /etc/pbuilderrc to look at the DIST environment variable and choose the right cowdir. This isn't overly complicated: if [ -z "$DIST" ]; then > BASEPATH=/var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow; > else > if [ "$DIST" = "etch" ]; then > DEBIAN_ETCH_WORKAROUND=1; > fi > > BASEPATH=/var/cache/pbuilder/base-$DIST.cow; > fi > Maybe git-pbuilder could source an additional configfile that defines this as default if you want. Or we could indeed always add options to git-pbuilder. However, in that last case, how do we make sure the cowdirs are there to begin with? And what options do we add? What if people want switches to switch between i386 amd amd64 on 64 bits machines? So: maybe we shouldn't go there at all and add a README that explains how to use multiple cowdirs and archs. Regards, Allard PS: git-buildpackage rocks!
