[Debian-med-packaging] Dropping to a shell on failed build

[Kevin Murray]

Hi all,

Time to sharpen my searching skills I think.

On 15:25 21/12, Kevin Murray wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there some way that one can drop to a bash shell upon failure of a build?
> For debugging's sake, it would be great to inspect the build environment of a
> pbuilder as it was at the point when the build failed. Then I could e.g. try
> finding a missing file or see which directory something is actually in.
> 

There is a way using pbuilder hooks, as documented in the Ubuntu wiki:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto#Running_a_Shell_When_Build_Fails_.28Intro_to_Hook_Scripts.29

Sorry for the mailing list noise!

Cheers,
K
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