Bug#620337: The documentation about the ${HOME}/.pbuilderrc file is misleading
Michael Wild
themiwi at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Apr 1 08:59:13 UTC 2011
Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.199+nmu1ubuntu1
Severity: normal
pbuilder(1) mentions a per-user configuration file ${HOME}/.pbuilderrc,
but since pbuilder must be run as root, it should probably refer to
/root/.pbuilderrc instead. This is especially confusing if run with
sudo. Also, it doesn't make much sense to have both /etc/pbuilderrc and
/root/.pbuilderrc if it always uses /root/.pbuilderrc. That's just a
duplication of /etc/pbuilderrc then. What could be a better option is
for pbuilder to check whether SUDO_UID is defined, and then use the real
user's home directory.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers natty-updates
APT policy: (500, 'natty-updates'), (500, 'natty-security'), (500, 'natty')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii coreutils 8.5-1ubuntu6 GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36ubuntu4 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 3.4.3ubuntu1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii debootstrap 1.0.29 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii wget 1.12-2.1ubuntu2 retrieves files from the web
Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii devscripts 2.10.69ubuntu2 scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1ubuntu1 Gives a fake root environment
ii sudo 1.7.4p4-5ubuntu5 Provide limited super user privile
Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
ii cowdancer 0.62+nmu2ubuntu1 Copy-on-write directory tree utili
pn gdebi-core <none> (no description available)
pn pbuilder-uml <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information excluded
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