[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#528312: Bug#528312: Please add option to skip removal of installed Build-Depends

[Roger Leigh]

tags 528312 + patch fixed-upstream pending
thanks

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:40:36PM -0700, Joey Korkames wrote:
> For a failed build, it lets me chroot in manually and start hacking in  
> the build dir to discover/fix bugs. For successful builds, destroying  
> the snapshot is faster than waiting for "apt-get remove foo bar" to 
> finish (and then having to destroy the snapshot afterward, anyways).

Please could you see if the attached patch fixes things for you.

It adds a --purge-deps=(always|never|successful) option, which is
also settable in the configuration file with $purge_build_deps.

In your case, setting it to "never" will do what you want.


Regards,
Roger

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