Control: tags -1 - patch
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 22:07:01 +0100, Christian Kastner wrote:
> Please consider including the following patch. It adds a new option
> "variant" to autopkg-test-build-qemu that is passed on to debootstrap.
Instead of plumbing arbitrary debootstrap options such as --variant
and --[no-]merged-usr through autopkgtest-build-qemu and vmdb2 into
debootstrap, I'd prefer to go in the direction of taking an optional
base tarball as an input to autopkgtest-build-qemu (like the similar
feature that I recently added to autopkgtest-build-podman), so that if
the default base system does not meet your requirements, you can run
debootstrap or mmdebstrap with options of your choice and then convert
the result into a bootable VM image.
For sbuild specifically, the tarball produced by
sbuild-createchroot --make-sbuild-tarball=FILE [--chroot-mode=unshare]
seems like the ideal base.
smcv
