[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#836940: Bug#836940: cowbuilder, sbuild: should behave identically in regard to default gnupg installation

Mattia Rizzolo mattia at debian.org
Wed Sep 7 21:24:31 UTC 2016


Pbuilder (and therefore cowbuilder) already use --variant=buildd

That afaik is --variant=minbase + build-essential.

I'm not sure why you still get gnupg installed.

Btw what version are you using (of cowbuilder and pbuilder)?

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, 11:19 p.m. Thorsten Glaser, <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:

> Markus Koschany dixit:
>
> >Thanks. Could we make these variants the default in cowbuilder?
>
> Unsure, people *can* use cowbuilder to create normal chroots
> for use, just like schroot.
>
> One thing we can do is to document this better in the cowbuilder
> manpage (currently only in pbuilder’s at all, and IMHO it belongs
> mentioned in the --create option).
>
> Or add a --variant to both pbuilder and cowbuilder that gets
> mapped to --debootstraptoptions --variant, and make --create
> error out if it’s not given.
>
> One more problem with this is that alternative debootstraps
> can be used, which may not have this option. So if we do the
> latter, it can only fire with --debootstrap debootstrap (or
> some variant of it… remember it’s just a script that can be
> renamed…).
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
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