On 9 November 2012 09:37, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > On 08/11/12 19:31, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >> I would like to have a nocompress Debian build option that will skip >> any compression/optimisation at build time. >
I am sorry if this was misleading. I am aware of the noopt option and I am aware that disabling compiler optimisations gives you a different (possibly broken) binaries. > > If what you want is a DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS option for "don't compress > source or binary packages", nocompress seems a fine name for that; or to > minimize side-effects by preserving the structure of the package, it > could be something like quickcompress to keep the packager's choice of > gzip or xz but use the fastest possible presets. (It's possible that > "faster" presets don't actually give you more performance if the time to > write out the .deb is dominated by I/O, though.) > This is what I want. And not currently available. True about I/O. Does dpkg-deb writes-out tar to disk before compressing it or is it a pipe? > If what you want is a general shortcut option for "cut corners to get me > a binary sooner, I (am|am not) willing to accept functional changes as a > result" then it should have a different name, perhaps > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=quick or something (or two different names, if there > are valid uses for both versions). > I don't think this one is needed, as noopt + the above nocompress will result in this shortcut, more or less. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canbhlujzd7fweq-oervzjqj6uj67f5-cdaxxkdud61ptdjt...@mail.gmail.com
