Roger Leigh wrote: > > Willie Wonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I'm the schroot/dchroot maintainer. I missed the initial > question, but I'd just like to note that Hello! and Thank you for your awesome work and support ;-) > - the dchroot behaviour had an unintentional backward-incompatible > change in the options parsing and command execution. This has since > been corrected; it's currently waiting in NEW and should enter sid > in a week or so. In the meantime, it's available from > > https://alioth.debian.org/project/shownotes.php?release_id=816 > https://alioth.debian.org/download.php/1654/schroot-0.99.1.tar.bz2 > > - schroot allows any number of command-line options, e.g. > > $ schroot -c chroot -- foo --opt1 --opt2 bar baz > > - dchroot allows a single command, but invokes it automatically via > "sh -c": > > $ dchroot -c chroot "foo --opt1 --opt2 bar baz" > > The schroot syntax (which dchroot in sid is transiently using) is > rather more flexible, but if you want the dchroot semantics just > requires '-- sh -c "command"' instead of 'command'. ahhh.. I think I understand now ;-) > > Isn't the syntax in that original command, you posted from the bug report > > actually telling the command dchroot to *ignore* any following 'options', by > > using the ' -- ' syntax, just after the command...IOW > > > > Doesn't this; > >> dchroot -- -c "command" > > mean: dchroot, ignore options that follow, then pass to it the -c > > option (which it may ignore?), then "command".? > > This would mean run the "-c" program with "command" as the first > option (!). Probably not quite what is desired. > > > I only ask b/c, I've learned (from lurking about usenet) that this > > is one trick that's used to remove filenames that begin with a '-' > > (hyphen), when using the 'rm' command. > Yes. It's used here so that dchroot/schroot can distinguish between > options for themselves and options for the program you want to run. > For example, > > schroot ls -l > > and > > schroot -- ls -l > > are different. With the former, schroot gets the "-l" option, but > with the latter ls gets it. I see! -- thanks for that very clear explanation > BTW, any dchroot/schroot questions are welcome on the > buildd-tools-devel mailing list. Okee-dokee ;-) Still quite out of my league - but I'll surely keep that in mind. > Regards, > Roger Same here - and thanks again for the details/info! Regards __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
