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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>