[Pbuilder-maint] pdebuild cleaning before build-depend installed

[Paul van Tilburg]

Hey,

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 02:24:36PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > A few days ago I switched over to using cowbuilder as my main
> > chroot-build-engine for pbuilder since my machine is not really fast. 
> > This also meant that I had to switch from my usual 'pdebuild
> > --use-pdebuild-internal' to plain 'pdebuild', since the first one didn't
> > seem to work well with cowbuilder (?).
> 
> That sounds like a bug, which lool seems to have fixed.

Ok, thanks.

> > Anyway, I have noticed that calling plain pdebuild does something
> > differently:
> > Somehow it calls the 'clean' target before the chroot is built and the
> > build-depends are installed.  
> 
> This is required before *.dsc, *.diff.gz is generated.

Ah ok, but a bit in conflict with the requirement that all build-depends 
have to installed.

> > If the clean target somehow really needs the build-depends which I
> > haven't installed on my system, pdebuild bails out and I never get
> > to the actual chroot-building part, in which it would've installed
> > them.  Is this meant to be this way?  
> 
> yes. That's why pdebuild-internal was implemented.
> 
> The logic behind pdebuild-internal isn't the default yet is that since
> it's a new implementation, and does not implement everything that used
> to be implemented by pdebuild, it's an option.
> 
> The intention is to reimplmenet pdebuild-internal and re-document so
> thta pdebuild-internal is the default.

Ah, great! Well it's already working quite well now. 

Thanks for clearing it up,
Regards,

Paul

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