[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#782553: sbuild: 'sbuild --source --no-arch-all' fails in a very confusing way

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 11:11:58 +0100 Johannes Schauer <josch at debian.org> wrote:
> Maybe a good fix would already be to properly document how --source,
> --arch-all and --arch-all-only play together. Here is an overview of which
> combination of these options leads to which flag being passed to
> dpkg-buildpackage:
> 
>   --source  |  --arch-all  | --arch-all-only  | dpkg-buildpackage flag
> ------------+--------------+------------------+------------------------
>     set     |     set      |      set         |        -g
>     set     |     set      |                  |
>     set     |              |      set         |        -S
>     set     |              |                  |        -G
>             |     set      |      set         |        -A
>             |     set      |                  |        -b
>             |              |      set         |
>             |              |                  |        -B

actually above table is partly a lie. The --arch-all-only option, while being
the only option that can set the BUILD_ARCH_ANY configuration variable is
*also* setting the BUILD_ARCH_ALL variable so it has to be used together with
--no-arch-all directly after it in cases where --arch-all is not set.

This will be vastly simplified with the --arch-any and --no-arch-any option
from bug #799056.

Thanks!

cheers, josch
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