Hmmmm.. sorry I don't follow your logic.
What do you want to do and what's broken?

At Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:07:21 +0200,
Modestas Vainius wrote:
> 
> Package: cowbuilder
> Version: 0.60
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> cowbuilder parses pbuilder-only pbuilderrc options in
> parameter.c:load_config_file() and later repasses them as command line options
> to the internal pbuilder calls. For example, DEBBUILDOPTS gets passed as
> --debbuildopts command line option to pbuilder call. There are numerous issues
> with this behaviour:
> 
> 1) pbuilder shell-expands DEBBUILDOPTS="" when passing it to 
> dpkg-buildpackage.
> On the contrary, --debbuildopts is interpreted as a single dpkg-buildpackage
> option. Therefore, DEBBUILDOPTS="-j3 -b" works file, but --debbuildopts "-j3
> -b" fails with "unknown option or argument '-j3 -b'". Therefore, my
> DEBBUILDOPTS that contains multiple options do not work anymore.
> 
> 2) --binary-arch combined with --debbuildopts does not work in pbuilder,
> because --debbuildopts overrides it. --binary-arch + DEBBUILDOPTS work fine.
> Again, cowbuilder repasses DEBBUILDOPTS as --debbuildopts and breaks
> --binary-arch.
> 
> 3) This repassing is pretty useless. cowbuilder passes --configfile to 
> pbuilder
> anyway, so the latter will figure out what to do with its config options by
> itself. In the end, "smart" cowbuilder repassing is reduntant. What's more,
> even cowbuilder(8) says that apart from a couple of configuration options,
> others should be ignored.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages cowbuilder depends on:
> ii  cowdancer                     0.60       Copy-on-write directory tree 
> utili
> ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  pbuilder                      0.194      personal package builder for 
> Debia
> 
> cowbuilder recommends no packages.
> 
> cowbuilder suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 



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