Bug#410575: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#410575: pbuilder: better document --debootstrapopts arguments with spaces

[Junichi Uekawa]

At Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:32:34 +0100,
Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> 
> Package: pbuilder
> Version: 0.163
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> passing arguments to --debootstrapopts with spaces can be tricky, the
> solution is to use multiple --debootstrapopts, i.e.:
> 
> # pbuilder create --debbootstrapopts "-a i386" --debug --basetgz sid32.tar.gz --mirror http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian
> 
> + cdebootstrap --variant=buildd '-a i386' sid .  http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian
> 
> this doesn't work of course, a possibile solution would be to set IFS='
> ' just before debootstrap invocation so the correct expansion is used,
> and restore it afterwards.  Specifying multiple times --debootstrapopts
> indeed works as expected:
> 
> # pbuilder create --debootstrapopts -a --debootstrapopts i386 --debug --basetgz sid32.tar.gz --mirror http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian
> + cdebootstrap --variant=buildd -a i386 sid . http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian
> 
> either way, I think this needs to be documented in the man page :)


What do you want documented specifically more than what it is already documented?