retitle 547993 dpkg-buildpackage should support -F (full build)
thanks
Hi,
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> However, pdebuild doesn't provide a way of passing certain options only
> to the initial dpkg-buildpackage invocation (which is a separate bug
> that I'll also report), and -nc is passed to the dpkg-buildpackage run
> in the chroot as well. This triggers the following limitation:
>
> -nc Do not clean the source tree (implies -b if nothing else has
> been selected among -B, -A or -S).
>
> But there is no option to select a normal build that includes both the
> source and binaries.
>
> This seems wrong to me. Why the restriction? -nc is obviously safe in
> this case; the source package was just freshly unpacked, so running the
> clean target is pointless.
I recently changed -nc to allow -S also. In the commit I said:
commit 18dacea0fab9d81e85a5a7d4e9ec25435df7aa5b
Author: Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org>
Date: Fri May 15 16:28:45 2009 +0200
dpkg-buildpackage: allow options -nc and -S together
This combination is generally not recommended as you want to ensure
that a source package contains only source and not any intermediary files
left-over by the previous build. Nevertheless it can be useful from time
to time and instead of bluntly refusing, we now simply warn the user
and let the build proceed.
-nc still implies -b if nothing else has been specified as it's routinely
used to test if a fix is working by restarting a previously interrupted
build where it failed.
So it seems to be mainly a matter of convenience for the user who are
restarting an interrupted/failed build.
> I don't understand why -nc should have anything to do with whether or not
> the build is binary-only, but even assuming that you want to keep that
> linkage for backwards compatibility, I think there should be another option
> specifying the sort of package build that's done in the absence of any of
> -B, -A, or -S.
Yeah, the best way might be to add -F for "full build".
Cheers,
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