Re: Is there a way to preserve pbuilder chroot environment?

[Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>]

Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Wookey wrote:
>
>> I must admit I'm surprised so many people still use pbuilder, although I
>> do agree that the syntax is a bit simpler for a 'standard upload' build.
>
> I still use cowbuilder because schroot doesn't support cowdancer for
> copy-on-write chroots and I found tarball mode in pbuilder to be way
> too slow.

I use sbuild (actually, schroot under the hood) with btrfs-snapshot
chroots.  Creating a new build environment really is a snap.

> The one time I used sbuild, interrupting the build gave me a
> completely broken chroot that I had to reinstall.

By default, the snapshot is destroyed when sbuild finishes in any way.
No chance to damage the origin chroot this way.
-- 
Regards,
Feri.