Bug#880802: No documented way to pass a command into cowbuilder execute

[Thorsten Glaser]

Mattia Rizzolo dixit:

>On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 01:45:59PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The cowbuilder man page claims to support an execute operation, but I
>> cannot figure out how to pass in the command and there's no example.
>
>Assuming that it is like pbuilder, what 'execute' does is getting an

Most cowbuilder commands just call the corresponding pbuilder one.
This *is* badly documented in cowbuilder, admittedly.

>executable (be it binary or script), copy it inside the chroot, and
>execute it.

So Russ probably wants this:

echo apt update | cowbuilder \
    --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/base-experimental.cow \
    --login --save-after-login

In this specific case, though:

cowbuilder --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/base-experimental.cow --update

bye,
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