Nicer comments in pbuilderrc; closes: #504599

Improve comments to add an explanation header that the new
/etc/pbuilderrc uses the default values from
/usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc in pbuilder.config-generated pbuilderrc;
thanks Ubuntu, Michael Vogt, and Martin Pitt for the patch;
closes: #504599.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/debian/pbuilder.config b/debian/pbuilder.config
index b913cca..2e50015 100755
--- a/debian/pbuilder.config
+++ b/debian/pbuilder.config
@@ -39,7 +39,15 @@ case "$1" in
                 db_set pbuilder/mirrorsite ""
             fi
         else
-            echo "MIRRORSITE=$PLACEHOLDER" > "$CONFFILE"
+           cat <<EOF > "$CONFFILE"
+# this is your configuration file for pbuilder.
+# the file in /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc is the default template.
+# /etc/pbuilderrc is the one meant for overwritting defaults in
+# the default template
+#
+# read pbuilderrc.5 document for notes on specific options.
+EOF
+            echo "MIRRORSITE=$PLACEHOLDER" >> "$CONFFILE"
             MIRRORSITE=""
             db_set pbuilder/mirrorsite ""
         fi