[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#391100: pdebuild: should allow to keep current source tree untouched

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi,

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006, Yann Dirson wrote:
> It can be annoying to have the current tree cleaned for a pbuilder run -
> I often find myself having to do more work before finalizing a version,
> and have to rebuild completely each time, which is quite annoying for
> CPU-hungry packages.
> 
> A useful option (for both command-line and conffile) would be to copy
> the whole source tree into temporary storage, possibly using cowdancer
> or another trick to save disk space, and then clean and build the source
> package from there.
> 
> A bonus could be a mode where pdebuild goes to the background as soon as
> the copy is ready, so the user knows when it can start to hack on the
> next version, with a single tty used (I already have too many screen
> sessions openned, and the running build does not inform me much, a log
> is much more useful).

 Does the flag "--no-targz" offer enough functionality for your needs?

   Bye,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>