[Bug 671126] Re: --keyring argument breaks qemu-debootstrap

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This bug was fixed in the package pbuilder - 0.199ubuntu2

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pbuilder (0.199ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * pbuilderrc: change how we pass keyring in DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS (LP: #671126)
 -- Alex Chiang <achiang at canonical.com>   Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:23:04 -0600

** Changed in: pbuilder (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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--keyring argument breaks qemu-debootstrap
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/671126
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Status in “pbuilder” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: pbuilder

The file /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc defines:

# Set the debootstrap variant to 'buildd' type.
DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS=(
    '--variant=buildd'
    '--keyring' '/usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg'
    )

When we create an armel chroot using pbuilder create, we call build-arm-chroot / qemu-debootstrap. The DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS arg is passed, and it turns out that qemu-debootstrap has trouble parsing the command line arguments if there is a space between the option and the value. This in turn causes the chroot creation to fail later, as we attempt to run debootstrap in the chroot:

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/525893/

Arguably, the command line parsing of qemu-debootstrap should be fixed, but there's nothing wrong or hacky about using the --option=value style of passing arguments to debootstrap. debootstrap itself can handle both styles.