* Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net>, 2011-04-03, 01:26:
Please add an option to turn off log filtering. Thanks in advance.
That's no problem.
Thanks.
(To be honest, I don't understand why you decided to cripple logs with
this "feature"...)
Some people complained that build logs couldn't be diffed easily due
to the random part in the build directory name (which the filtering
makes constant).
Yes, I stumbled on this problem a few times, too. But:
1. If you diff logs only ocasionally, you can easily fix the problem
locally. Just use search&replace function in your $EDITOROFCHIOCE. Or
write a <50 lines post-processing script in your $LANGUAGEOFCHOICE.
2. If you diff logs on large scale, you need the current sbuild's log
filtering is too naïve: there are other sources of diff noise, which
sbuild cannot always fix without losing information (e.g.
aptitude/apt-get/dpkg output). So one would up with writing a
(sophisticated) log post-processor anyway.
3. sbuild _do_ lose information even now, because strings like CHROOT
and BUILDDIR can occur naturally in a build log. See e.g.:
https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=stunnel4&arch=ia64&ver=3:4.29-1&stamp=1260333411&file=log
4. If want copy&paste filtered log snippets and send them to other
people, I need to either undo the filtering (which cannot be done fully
automatically, see 3.) or write an extra explanation about the
transformation that were done. This is completely unnecessary burden.
--
Jakub Wilk
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