Hi, Quoting Mattia Rizzolo (2016-11-28 13:39:46) > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:17:21PM +1100, Scott Leggett wrote: > > But that means that pbuilder is carrying my local environment over to the > > build environment - so the build environment is no longer pristine. Is > > that behaviour intentional? > Yes it is. I mean, it's a feature that never existed, it's not planned, and > I don't think will happen anytime soon. I'd also argue that if you need to > clean up your environment like that either the package is fauly, or the build > host is.
I'd argue that the task of "clean up your environment" (build dependencies as well as environment variables) is *exactly* what chrooted package builders like sbuild and pbuilder should do. After all, if it was easy to manually run package builds in a clean environment then we wouldn't need them. Instead, we use sbuild or pbuilder because it is tedious to repeatedly and manually: - run debootstrap - copy sources - chroot into the new rootfs - install build dependencies - run the package build - tear down the rootfs The reason that sbuild does not drop *all* environment variables is, that it's easier to write: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck sbuild Than to invent more command line parameters to pass common environment variables that are intended to influence the package build. Thanks! cheers, josch
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