[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#657711: please make COPYFILES more flexible

[Marc Haber]

Package: schroot
Version: 1.4.24-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

maybe one wants to copy files to a chroot that are not active in the
host system. For example, I might want apt in the chroot not to honor
recommends and suggests, but in the host, this behavior is fine.

To solve this, I would like schroot to copy a file from
/etc/schroot/foo/files/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70RecommendsSuggests to
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70RecommendsSuggests in the schroot.

To allow this, the COPYFILES functionality could be changed to allow
two file names per line. If only one is given, behavior is not
changed, preserving backwards-compatibility. If two are given, one is
the source path from the host system, one is the target path inside
the chroot.

Greetings
Marc