On ke, 2010-12-29 at 18:27 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On ke, 2010-12-29 at 14:06 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > > The dpkg-source manpage says: > > > > > > > > --before-build directory > > > > This command should be called before any build of the > > > > package > > > > > > > > What is the "directory" argument to the option? Should it be "command" > > > > instead? > > > > > > No, it's really "directory". It's the same "directory" parameter that > > > -b gets (i.e. the unpacked source tree). > > > > Then I must admit utter confusion about this. What is the command that > > gets called? > > "dpkg-source --before-build foo" is the command. You (can) call it. And it > does whatever the source format decided to do in this hook. > > In practice, those commands are called by dpkg-buildpackage and it's > their main purpose. Prepare the source tree for the build. Clean up > afterwards. In a source-format specific way.
Ah, then I entirely missed the point of the options. I thought they were running some kind of shell scripts. Never mind then: to understand these options one needs to understand more of the new kinds of source package formats, and I didn't know they have hooks like that. -- Blog/wiki/website hosting with ikiwiki (free for free software): http://www.branchable.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
