id-pbuild-all invokes sudo itself. Note about sudosers

diff --git a/id-deb-build/id-pbuild-all.sh b/id-deb-build/id-pbuild-all.sh
index e86e5d3..c88ec51 100755 (executable)
--- a/id-deb-build/id-pbuild-all.sh
+++ b/id-deb-build/id-pbuild-all.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+# This script builds Debian packages for one or more distributions
+# in i386/amd64 architectures. It uses pbuilder. pbuilder requires root
+# privilege and is invoked with sudo.
+#
+# In order to avoid having to type-in the password for it, you might
+# use something like this in sudoers 
+#  user ALL=NOPASSWD,SETENV: /usr/sbin/pbuilder
+# where user is your username.
 
 usage()
 {
@@ -72,8 +80,9 @@ if test ! -e "$PKG"; then
     echo "${PKG} does not exist"
     exit 1
 fi
+PBUILDER=/usr/sbin/pbuilder
 PRODUCT=`echo *.dsc|sed 's/_.*//g'`
-
+ARCHS="i386 amd64"
 echo "Dsc $PKG . Product $PRODUCT"
 echo "Ubuntu distros: $UBUNTU_DIST"
 echo "Debian distros: $DEBIAN_DIST"
@@ -93,16 +102,16 @@ fi
 i=0
 date
 for dist in ${DEBIAN_DIST} ${UBUNTU_DIST}; do
-    for arch in i386 amd64; do
+    for arch in ${ARCHS}; do
         rm -fr ${dist}-${arch}
        (
            if test ! -f /var/cache/pbuilder/${dist}-${arch}-base.tgz; then
-               DIST=$dist ARCH=$arch pbuilder create
+               sudo DIST=$dist ARCH=$arch $PBUILDER create
            fi
            if $update; then
-               DIST=$dist ARCH=$arch pbuilder update --override-config
+               sudo DIST=$dist ARCH=$arch $PBUILDER update --override-config
            fi
-           DIST=$dist ARCH=$arch pbuilder --build $PKG
+           sudo DIST=$dist ARCH=$arch $PBUILDER --build $PKG
            ) >${dist}-${arch}.log 2>&1 &
        i=`expr $i + 1`
        if test $i -eq $concurrency; then
@@ -113,8 +122,7 @@ for dist in ${DEBIAN_DIST} ${UBUNTU_DIST}; do
 done
 wait
 for dist in ${DEBIAN_DIST} ${UBUNTU_DIST}; do
-    for arch in i386 amd64; do
-       
+    for arch in ${ARCHS}; do
        if test -f ${dist}-${arch}/*.dsc; then
            :
        else