[Build-common-hackers] Improving documentation

[Colin Walters]

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On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 08:52, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I would like to offer help for cdbs documentation.=20

Great!  I agree it is very much needed.

> (1)
> Can I use the cdbs patch system for conditional patches?=20

At the moment - no.  The dpatch maintainers were talking about porting
dpatch to cdbs a while back, but I haven't heard anything more.

But it's worth saying that the current patch system included in cdbs was
just a quick hack intended to demonstrate a plug-in patch system; I was
hoping someone would write a better one at some point :)

> Does cdbs always build all packages mentioned in debian/control?

You can change DEB_PACKAGES and DEB_UDEB_PACKAGES.

> (3)
> Another package suffers from a sick upstream file layout, and so I'd
> need to invoke make in ./foo/src instead of in .=20

I believe changing DEB_BUILDDIR will work, as Robert said.

> Any hints will be appreciated, and may end up in better cdbs
> documentation.

I hope that helps!


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