[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#657392: sbuild: Automatically handle --arch=all

[Daniel Dehennin]

Daniel Dehennin <daniel.dehennin at baby-gnu.org> writes:

> Daniel Dehennin <daniel.dehennin at baby-gnu.org> writes:
>
> Hello,
>
> [...]
>
>> I use a little shell script wrapper to handle the architecture:all case
>> because when reprepro list build-needing packages[1], the architecture:all
>> is a job on its own.
>
> I think we could manage two different cases:
>
> - "sbuild -A --arch=<SOMETHING>" or "sbuild -A": like today, build
>   architecture independent packages in addition to architecture
>   dependent ones
>
> - "sbuild --arch=all": only build architecture independent packages
>
> This would be useful for my setup, if "--arch=all" is handled internally
> by doing like "sbuild -A --arch=<something>", this would cause problem
> when building "Architecture: any all" sources.
>
> Actually, in Debian, the architecture independent packages are build by
> the developer who include them in his upload, the buildd only need to
> take care of its own architecture dependent packages.

I tried to look at the code to patch it[1] but I'm a little bit lost on how
and where to do it.

Any hint?

Regards.

Footnotes: 
[1]  our next ubuntu derivatives will be on precise and test our
     reprepro+rebuildd+sbuild setup now.

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