How to run pdebuild?

[Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>]

  I fail to get the appropriate command line for pdebuild. In
particular, I am trying to use su for --pbuilderroot but do it in
a wrong manner. Help will be appreciated. Some examples that don't work:

    $ pdebuild --buildresult ../ --pbuilderroot su -- --basetgz
    /var/cache/pbuilder/woody/base.tgz --debbuildopts 'us uc' --logfile
    /var/cache/pbuilder/woody/log/nut-1.2.2pre3.pdebuild

  yields:
  
    su: unrecognized option `--basetgz'

  So I have tried

    $ pdebuild --buildresult ../ --pbuilderroot su - root -- --basetgz
    /var/cache/pbuilder/woody/base.tgz --debbuildopts 'us uc' --logfile
    /var/cache/pbuilder/woody/log/nut-1.2.2pre3.pdebuild

  and got:

  Unknown id: pbuilder
  I Guess that this one was because my /etc/pbuilderrc has
  BUILDUSERNAME=pbuilder and pbuilder isn't in /etc/passwd.

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    Shaul Karl, shaulka@bezeqint.n e t