On Feb 28, 2014 11:17 AM, "Vincent Cheng" <vcheng@debian.org> wrote:
> Hmmm, out of curiousity, how is this different from pbuilder-dist (in
> ubuntu-dev-tools)?
The concept is the same, but it is quite different:
* integrate support for ccache and apt caching for separate dists (every dists uses a different directory, while pbuilder-dist uses a single /var/cache/pbuilder/apt that causes me some issues, iirc)
* it does a lot more checks (e.g., it checks if the correct qemu package is installed if needed)
* correct support for non x86 arches (for now only arm64, it uses qemu-debootstrap for it)
* with the pbuilderrc I set up like eatmydata witch speed up all the steps, the apt depends resolver to gdebi, witch is quite faster than the default (I don't remember the default now), ccahe
* other thing I don't remember now.
Out of that script there is also some pbuilder hooks, for example.
In short, it's write around my needs :)
Yes, the concept is the same, but since it doesn't satisfied me I wrote my own pbuilder-dist-like script+pbuilderrc.
Since I keep all my configurations in git and that script is quite good looking I though other can benefit of it.
Maybe when it's better write, better support of all the cases I'll encounter I'll ask the maintainer of ubuntu-dev-tools (or devscripts, maybe) to include it or part of it.