Bug#565436: pbuilder: new $HOME value broke my hook scripts

[Francesco Poli]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:35:41 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:15:14 +0100 Loïc Minier wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010, Francesco Poli (t1000) wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to add a new environment variable to identify the
> > > debianized source directory?
> > > 
> > > I think that adding the following simple line in pdebuild-internal just
> > > before    export HOME=$(readlink -f $(pwd)/../) 
> > > would suffice:
> > > 
> > >   export DEBSOURCEDIR=$(readlink -f $(pwd))
> > > 
> > > maybe with a comment that explains that this is useful for
> > > hook scripts.
[...]
> Maybe something like
> 
>   cd ${HOME}/*/debian/..
> 
> could help in my case.
> 
> > 
> >  Which is probably a good workaround for your hooks for now.
> 
> I was indeed planning to use a workaround like the one described above,
> but it has a flaw: it breaks if I keep more than one debianized
> source directory inside the same parent directory
[...]

I've updated my hook scripts with a workaround similar to the one
described above (see the web page on my .signature).
They suffer from the limitation I explained: I cannot place two
debianized source directories side by side.

Loïc, did you find the time to add the DEBSOURCEDIR environment
variable?
I still think it would be very useful.


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