pbuilder-apt-config

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> What do you think of ppa for ubuntu.  I am no Ubuntu person to tell how
> important it is...  

 That's very important.  A large number of people do build against PPAs.
 However it's not trivial:
 - GPG key of the PPA needs to be pulled from a particular keyserver
 - some PPAs are "private" and need a login/password and are accessed at
   a different URL (with https)

> Also do you know any other debian derivative/style works...
> debian-edu
> deb http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux lenny local

 That's a great example of a case where "lenny" is not enough to know
 this is about skolelinux.  Probably a good reason to implement
 --archive in pbuilder-apt-config.  Problem is: how does the user tell
 pbuilder that he wants to use a different archive?  Just setting
 --mirror?  So perhaps --distribution should map to pbuiler-apt-config's
 --suite?  But then how does one select "autoguessing"?

 Another one I can think of is emdebian which also uses Debian names:
    http://emdebian.org/crush/dists/
    http://emdebian.org/grip/dists/

 However I don't think we need to support these immediately; the
 official Debian and Ubuntu archives are a good start, and we should
 think about making things solid and extensible.  Perhaps these could be
 handled with separate pbuilder-apt-config utilities for instance?  Not
 too nice though.

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Loïc Minier