[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#782553: sbuild: 'sbuild --source --no-arch-all' fails in a very confusing way

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

Quoting Johannes Schauer (2015-12-25 18:39:37)
> On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 11:11:58 +0100 Johannes Schauer <josch at debian.org> wrote:
> > Maybe a good fix would already be to properly document how --source,
> > --arch-all and --arch-all-only play together. Here is an overview of which
> > combination of these options leads to which flag being passed to
> > dpkg-buildpackage:
> > 
> >   --source  |  --arch-all  | --arch-all-only  | dpkg-buildpackage flag
> > ------------+--------------+------------------+------------------------
> >     set     |     set      |      set         |        -g
> >     set     |     set      |                  |
> >     set     |              |      set         |        -S
> >     set     |              |                  |        -G
> >             |     set      |      set         |        -A
> >             |     set      |                  |        -b
> >             |              |      set         |
> >             |              |                  |        -B
> 
> actually above table is partly a lie. The --arch-all-only option, while being
> the only option that can set the BUILD_ARCH_ANY configuration variable is
> *also* setting the BUILD_ARCH_ALL variable so it has to be used together with
> --no-arch-all directly after it in cases where --arch-all is not set.
> 
> This will be vastly simplified with the --arch-any and --no-arch-any option
> from bug #799056.

a proposed patch to fix all this in the documentation and to deprecate the
--arch-all-only option in favour of a simpler interface is attached.

Please comment!

Thanks!

cheers, josch
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