pbuilderrc manpage doesn't mention that quotes are needed around multiple components

Bug #609106 reported by Daniel James
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
PBuilder
Fix Released
Unknown
pbuilder (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Mattia Rizzolo

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pbuilder

When using pbuilder with cowbuilder, it's necessary for cowdancer to be downloaded during the step:

sudo cowbuilder --create

Because cowdancer is in universe, this means adding an extra component to your /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc file. The manpage pbuilderrc(5) states:

       COMPONENTS=main
              Specify the default distribution components to use. This option is space-delimited. This
              option only affects when doing pbuilder create or when --override-config is specified for
              pbuilder update option.

However, using the line:

       COMPONENTS=main universe

will fail with a message that the universe command cannot be found - because this value is space-delimited, it is interpreted as two separate commands. The man page should be changed to show the value in quotes:

       COMPONENTS="main"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: pbuilder 0.196ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jul 23 11:48:56 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pbuilder

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Daniel James (daniel-64studio) wrote :
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)
Changed in pbuilder (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → In Progress
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)
Changed in pbuilder (Ubuntu):
assignee: Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) → nobody
status: In Progress → Triaged
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Maarten Bezemer (veger) wrote :

Send report to upstream/debian (they are the maintainers of pbuilder)

Changed in pbuilder:
status: Unknown → New
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Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri) wrote : pending

tags 659583 + pending
thanks
 affects ubuntu/pbuilder
 assignee mapreri
 status fixcommitted

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pbuilder/pbuilder.git/commit/?id=d748e9713cffd9b929d6c7e8135d0fd4a320575c

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Changed in pbuilder (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in pbuilder:
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in pbuilder:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package pbuilder - 0.221ubuntu2

---------------
pbuilder (0.221ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Gianfranco Costamagna ]
  * Remove XS-* prefix from debian control file, useless after dpkg 1.17.10.

  [ Mattia Rizzolo ]
  * cherry-pick change from Debian VCS to update pbuilder-apt-config and fix
    autopkgtest.

 -- Mattia Rizzolo <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Nov 2015 01:36:53 +0000

Changed in pbuilder (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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