At Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:15:14 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > > severity 565436 wishlist > tag 565436 + patch > retitle 565436 PATH to Debian source in env var > stop > > Hi > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010, Francesco Poli (t1000) wrote: > > Would it be possible to add a new environment variable to identify the > > debianized source directory? > > > > I think that adding the following simple line in pdebuild-internal just > > before export HOME=$(readlink -f $(pwd)/../) > > would suffice: > > > > export DEBSOURCEDIR=$(readlink -f $(pwd)) > > > > maybe with a comment that explains that this is useful for > > hook scripts. > > > > I think this would be harmless and very useful for many hook > > scripts written by users in the future. > > Please add this line as soon as possible, if you agree. > > Sure; that seems fine; not sure about the actual name, but that would > work. > > The other hooks around do things like: > cd /tmp/buildd/*/debian/.. > > Which is probably a good workaround for your hooks for now.
We probably need to export a env var to the source tree, since that doesn't always work, and relying on that is a bit flaky. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
