Package: sbuild
Version: 0.85.0
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
sbuild is really great. I have a small feature request to make it easier to
navigate the autopkgtest options:
In sbuild.conf i use
$autopkgtest_root_args = '';
$autopkgtest_opts = [ '--', 'schroot', '%r-%a-sbuild' ];
but sometimes i need to lxc because schroot isnt enough of a container, or i
need to match what happens on salsa
And now i need to use sudo, i have to remember to uncomment the following two
lines
$autopkgtest_root_args = 'sudo';
$autopkgtest_opts = [ '--', 'lxc', 'autopkgtest-%r' ];
and then recomment after... -- I know i can pass these on the command line,
but i can never remember the syntax for each.
Could these variables be set via via hashes, so i could easily choose at
run-time whether to use lxc or schroot
(or unshare etc):
I was thinking you could support a syntax like:
$autopkgtest_backend="schroot" # default backend
# bash of backend => "value to use"
$autopkgtest_root_args_hash = { "schroot" => "", "lxc" => "sudo",
"unshare"=>"run0" };
# bash of backend => [args,to,use]
$autopkgtest_opts_hash = {
"lxc" => [ '--', 'lxc', 'autopkgtest-%r' ],
"schroot" => [ '--', 'schroot', '%r-%a-sbuild' ],
}
and then doing --autopkgtests-backend=X would simply do call
$autopkgtest_root_args=$autopkgtest_root_args_hash[X];
$autopkgtest_opts=$autopkgtest_opts_args_hash[X];
would that be possible?
