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

Filippo Giunchedi filippo at debian.org
Wed Feb 14 12:05:23 UTC 2007


On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:41:54AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > # 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?

something like: if you need to pass an argument with options to debootstrap use
--debootstrapopts multiple times, which IMO might be non-obvious from the
current man page, YMMV.
The same applies to --debuildopts IIRC, this is slightly related to #229834 as
well.

thanks,
filippo




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