Public bug reported:
When running pbuilder-dist <dist> <arch> create, pbuilder-dist creates
the base tarball per hardcoded naming conventions. In doing so, it
disregards the contents of ~/.pbuilderrc and also provides no easy
workaround.
When run on an amd64 system,
pbuilder-dist saucy amd64 create && pbuilder-dist saucy i386 create
produces the following base tarballs :
saucy-base.tgz saucy-i386-base.tgz
These tarballs, consequently, have the following problems :
1. The names are inconsistent. Running the same commands on i386 and amd64
machines produces markedly different results, making other third-party helper
tools and scripts harder to write.
2. The names are inconsistent with the names set out in ~/.pbuilderrc,
specifically as BASETGZ
3. (My specific instance of trouble) rebuildd, for whatever reason, wants the
tarballs as saucy-amd64.tgz and saucy-i386.tgz. I have no way to provide these
without making (minor) modifications to /usr/bin/pbuilder-dist.
This is alright, and one could argue that rebuildd should provide a
nomenclature specification method, which it probably does, but I think
that for the sake of convenience and consistent experience, pbuilder-
dist should do one of more of the following:
1. Honor whatever is in ~/.pbuilderrc in terms of BASETGZ
2. Allow modification of BASETGZ with either an argument or using an
environment variable to override whatever is hardcoded and/or whatever is in
.pbuilderrc
3. Name the tarballs consistently by default. I expect there are various other
dependencies involved, but I really don't see why arch should not just be
included in the tgz name by default. The only possible explanation I can think
of is if it is something used for truely arch-independent packaging (any), but
that logic does not really support enforced arch-free naming for the host arch.
** Affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[pbuilder-dist] should honour BASETGZ or name consistantly
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