paul cannon <p...@debian.org> writes: > I've found that I occasionally need to pass arguments with spaces in > them to pbuilder through git-pbuilder. For example, say I needed to > create a new cowdancer build environment using the distribution > components "main" and "contrib" both (so, I would want to pass > '--components "main contrib"' to pbuilder).
> The way to pass extra arguments to pbuilder through git-pbuilder > (without using a .pbuilderrc) is with $GIT_PBUILDER_OPTIONS, so I would > try that: > GIT_PBUILDER_OPTIONS='--components "main contrib"' \ > DIST=sid \ > BUILDER=cowbuilder \ > git-pbuilder create Incidentally, I should probably mention that this example is overly complex, since for commands like create git-pbuilder passes the arguments to the builder. So you can just say: DIST=sid BUILDER=cowbuilder git-pbuilder create --components 'main contrib' But the same problem does come up in other ways, so the patch is still worthwhile. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org