Re: Passing extra environment variables to lb chroot_install

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On Fri, 2020-03-20 at 17:50 +0000, Witold Baryluk wrote:
> I want all instances of apt in the chroot during lb build, to have
> few extra
> environment variables, for example:
> 
> export NEEDRESTART_SUSPEND=1
> export APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=none
> 
> I am not sure how to do that, without modifying the lb itself.
> 
> Similarly, I might want to pass some environment variables to the
> custom
> hooks in the chroot. For the hooks, I could create custom file with
> exports / variables and source it in the chroot hooks,
> but it will not work for the lb chroot.

try placing them in config/environment or config/environment.chroot

each line of these files not starting with a '#' is included into the
ENV variable by the Chroot() function (functionc/chroot.sh) and
presumably is precisely intended for your use case.