Bug#630932: pbuilder: --preserve-buildspace is ineffective

[Mattia Rizzolo]

control: tag -1 - patch + wontfix moreinfo
control: close -1

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:27:10AM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:
> while trying to debug a problem with my pbuilder configuration, I found
> that the build space (/var/cache/pbuilder/build) was always deleted.
> After some debugging, I contrived the following patch that solves the
> problem for me:

ahem, sadly --preserve-buildplace has a quite different purpose.
I find that sadly, since also the description is quite hard to grasp
(improvments welcome, I don't think I'm able to explain that better),
and imho that use case is particularly uncommon between pbuilder users:

   --preserve-buildplace
          Do not clean the --buildplace if it has the same contents as  the
          .tar.gz file, and no modifications are done.

          For preserving the build place for --create and --update targets,
          see --debug option.

          As with --no-targz, suppresses appending pbuilder's process ID to
          the --buildplace.

          This  is useful if you want to attempt to build a large number of
          packages successively, but you expect that many  of  them  cannot
          have their build dependencies satisfied.

          It  will clean up the build place on failure, or after a success‐
          ful build.

Though, if your problem is about the configuration for the update/create
phases, --debug will preserv the unpacked chroot in case of failures; in
the other cases, I'd like to suggest using a hook to inspect what's
going on.


I'm sorry for how long it took to get this reply, but as you might guess
pbuilder was unmaintained in the last few years.
If you want to share what's your use case more in details, I'd be glad
to work on a better solution.

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