Bug#490935: pbuilder: Impement to ensure that clean after build is working
Carl Fürstenberg
azatoth at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 12:52:14 UTC 2008
Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.181
Severity: important
Per http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt a release goal is double
compilation support, and one step to ensure that is to verify that clean
works. When doing an normal dpkg-buildpackage, you can pass the
parameter -tc to clean the directory after build, but when building
under a pbuild environment, no such posibillity exists (Probably because
of the reasoning as it will be deleted anyway, so no clean is required).
But though Policy section 4.9 specifies that clean must be able to restore,
many developers miss to check clean after build as they often build in
pbuilder environments, and the only way to check that is to do an normal
build, which might miss other things instead.
Even trhough it will take some CPU cycles more, my advice is to clean
in the chroot by default.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.131 Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii cdebootstrap 0.5.2 Bootstrap a Debian system
ii coreutils 6.10-6 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.29 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii debootstrap 1.0.9 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii gcc 4:4.3.1-1 The GNU C compiler
ii wget 1.11.3-1 retrieves files from the web
Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii cowdancer 0.47 Copy-on-write directory tree utili
ii devscripts 2.10.30 scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii fakeroot 1.9.5 Gives a fake root environment
ii sudo 1.6.9p15-2 Provide limited super user privile
-- debconf information:
pbuilder/nomirror:
* pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/
pbuilder/rewrite: false
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