Bug#394985: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#394985: Loads ~/.pbuilderrc even with --configfile on the command line

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

> > That's a personal preference, and an unusual one.
> 
>  Perhaps it's a personal preference, however other programs permit
>  overriding the default configuration in some way, rarely is this used
>  as an extension point

The contents of --configfile does override the contents of
~/.pbuilderrc.

>  Here's why I came to reporting this bug: I have a complex setup which
>  does a lot of things "automagically", such as creating distribution
>  specific dirs.  My default distribution is sid, so I had a .pbuilderrc
>  which set distribution to sid, and other *.pbuilderrc for other dists.
>  Building for -- say -- etch would happen with pbuilder --configfile
>  etch.pbuilderrc.  But I noticed that the sid dirs were created
>  unconditionally because ~/.pbuilderrc was always sourced.
> 
>  Now I don't use ~/.pbuilderrc anymore, I have a sid.pbuiderrc as well,
>  this makes ~/.pbuilderrc useless to me and it broke my expectation.

>  Another way to close the bug is to document this more proeminently in
>  pbuilder(8) as it currently states "Loads the configuration file" in
>  --configfile.  This doesn't contradict what --configfile really does,
>  but still...

This sounds like what you really need documentation, do you have a
suggested fix?


regards,
	junichi
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