Andrew Pollock <apoll...@debian.org> writes: > I'm not convinced that will work, but I'll give it a try. The man page > says
> "Export the current branch head (or the treeish object given via > --git-export to directory before building." Yeah, I noticed; the interaction between that and where the built Git packages end up isn't obvious. The short version is that git-pbuilder will be run from within the exported tree, wherever that is, so will deposit the *.deb files into whatever directory the tree was expanded into. >> I don't think I ever considered the possibility that people would want >> the build-area and the place where the built debs end up to be >> different. > I'm not following. The build-area is off in a pbuilder chroot somewhere > isn't it? I think part of the confusion may be that I came to all this from svn-buildpackage, so I carry a bunch of cognitive baggage that isn't shared by people who came to it directly. In svn-buildpackage, you always create a directory structure where you have a set of checkouts of packages and then a tarballs directory and a build-area directory parallel to those. svn-buildpackage will find the tarball in tarballs and then deposit the builds in build-area. When I switched to git-buildpackage, I kept the same layout, just dropping the tarballs directory (due to pristine-tar). I think I was just assuming that everyone used it that way. I see, from actually looking at the documentation now, that this isn't the default behavior (I'm not sure if it used to be or if I'd just forgotten the history a long time ago). Another interesting option may be to change git-pbuilder to stop setting the directory into which to store the results and change git-buildpackage to pass in a flag saying to use .. iff --git-export-dir was specified. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
