Bug#565436: pbuilder: new $HOME value broke my hook scripts

[Francesco Poli]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:15:14 +0100 Loïc Minier wrote:

[...]
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010, Francesco Poli (t1000) wrote:
> > Would it be possible to add a new environment variable to identify the
> > debianized source directory?
> > 
> > I think that adding the following simple line in pdebuild-internal just
> > before    export HOME=$(readlink -f $(pwd)/../) 
> > would suffice:
> > 
> >   export DEBSOURCEDIR=$(readlink -f $(pwd))
> > 
> > maybe with a comment that explains that this is useful for
> > hook scripts.
> > 
> > I think this would be harmless and very useful for many hook
> > scripts written by users in the future.
> > Please add this line as soon as possible, if you agree.
> 
>  Sure; that seems fine; not sure about the actual name, but that would
>  work.

Thank you very much for your quick and positive response!  :-)
I hope it can be done soon.

> 
>  The other hooks around do things like:
>     cd /tmp/buildd/*/debian/..

Take into account that we are talking about pdebuild-internal, hence
the debianized source directory will be something like
/home/myuser/mypath/to/debpackages/mydebpackage/mydebpackage-x.y.z-r

Or am I misunderstanding something?

Maybe something like

  cd ${HOME}/*/debian/..

could help in my case.

> 
>  Which is probably a good workaround for your hooks for now.

I was indeed planning to use a workaround like the one described above,
but it has a flaw: it breaks if I keep more than one debianized
source directory inside the same parent directory, as in

..
└── bigproject
    ├── first_package
    │   └── debian
    ├── second_package
    │   └── debian
    └── third_package
        └── debian

where the workaround will always drop me into the first directory of
the file globbing expansion (the other non-optional arguments are
ignored by the cd command).

Rationale for this directory structure: two or more source packages may
be related, e.g. a program and some libraries used by the program


P.S.: the hook scripts I was talking about are the ones mentioned in
my .signature ...

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