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 :)
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