Re: A proposal for a tool to build local testing debs

2017-05-26 Thread Sean Whitton
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 09:03:16AM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > I think the last line should better be > > > > $ mk-build-deps -i > > > > ..in that case you won't get bitten if the build deps of the new package > > differ from the build deps of the package in the archiv

Re: A proposal for a tool to build local testing debs

2017-05-26 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 25/05/17 20:59, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On May 25 2017, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Then in dgit-user(7), the SUMMARY would become >> >> SUMMARY >>(These runes will be discussed later.) >> >>% dgit clone glibc jessie,-security >>% cd glibc >>% wget >> 'htt

Re: A proposal for a tool to build local testing debs

2017-05-25 Thread James McCoy
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 09:03:16AM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > So maybe it's better to use command below to fit all cases: > mk-build-deps --root-cmd sudo --install --tool "apt-get -o > Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes --no-install-recommends" > (from wiki [0]) That's the default value for --too

Re: A proposal for a tool to build local testing debs

2017-05-25 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Thu, 25 May 2017 11:59:25 -0700 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On May 25 2017, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Then in dgit-user(7), the SUMMARY would become > > > > SUMMARY > >(These runes will be discussed later.) > > > >% dgit clone glibc jessie,-security > >% cd glibc > >

Re: A proposal for a tool to build local testing debs

2017-05-25 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On May 25 2017, Sean Whitton wrote: > Then in dgit-user(7), the SUMMARY would become > > SUMMARY >(These runes will be discussed later.) > >% dgit clone glibc jessie,-security >% cd glibc >% wget > 'https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=2825

Re: A proposal for a tool to build local testing debs (was: Re: infinite number of Debian workflows)

2017-05-25 Thread Sean Whitton
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 12:06:44PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Doing a whole build in a hidden directory somewhere is rather poor I > think. Could you say why? > Also this doesn't work well with sbuild/pbuilder/cowbuilder/whatever. Right, but this is for users for whom `apt-get build-dep` is eno

A proposal for a tool to build local testing debs (was: Re: infinite number of Debian workflows)

2017-05-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("A proposal for a tool to build local testing debs (was: Re: infinite number of Debian workflows)"): > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:21:35PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > It would be best if the user would just pass an option to say `pls > > pick vers

A proposal for a tool to build local testing debs (was: Re: infinite number of Debian workflows)

2017-05-25 Thread Sean Whitton
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:21:35PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > It would be best if the user would just pass an option to say `pls > pick version number' and some tool would make a reasonable stab at it. How about a new dgit subcommand 'build-deb' which does this: - create a new git worktree somew