Debian Bug report logs - #959745
allow overriding debootstrap command and arguments

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From: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: allow overriding debootstrap command and arguments

Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 15:30:07 -0400

Package: ganeti-instance-debootstrap
Version: 0.16-6
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if we could override the debootstrap command and
arguments used in, well, bootstrapping new instances.

This would allow site operators to use other bootstrapping tools like
mmdebstrap:

https://packages.debian.org/mmdebstrap

or pass special parameters to deboostrap, like ` --no-merged-usr`.

I guess that could be one of the parameters that could be passed down
in to the `variants` configuration. Maybe a DEBOOTSTRAP_COMMAND
variable?

In the meantime, because variants config files are sourced as shell
script, I suspect such a config could be injected to do what I mean:

    debootstrap() {
        mmdebstrap "$@"
    }

or:

    debootstrap() {
        /usr/sbin/debootstrap --no-merged-usr "$@"
    }

That is a bit nasty so I think it should be avoided.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
  APT prefers stable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages ganeti-instance-debootstrap depends on:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.114
ii  dump         0.4b46-5
ii  e2fsprogs    1.44.5-1+deb10u3
ii  fdisk        2.33.1-0.1
ii  kpartx       0.7.9-3
ii  util-linux   2.33.1-0.1

ganeti-instance-debootstrap recommends no packages.

ganeti-instance-debootstrap suggests no packages.

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