On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Jules Bean wrote: > > The ability to invoke debian/rules <target> by hand is not really a > > 'technical advantage', though convenient. > > It is an advantage: I do "debian/rules binary" by hand quite a lot in > testing packages, and only run dpkg-buildpackage on the final result. > For some package I only call debian/rules to build subpackages instead > of all binaries. > > If I was forced to used dpkg-buildpackage everytime I'ld loose a lot of > flexibilty which would really annoy me.
I am continuing this argument largely for the sake of it, I admit, but that wasn't my intention. My intention was to add a new option to dpkg-buildpackage, so it behaves something like this: Faked documentation: 'dpkg-buildpackage' is a tool which simplifies the process of building packages, by setting up the environment the package expects to run in. If run without arguments, it will run 'debian/rules clean', build a source package, run 'debian/rules build', then 'debian/rules binary', create .dsc and .changes files and sign them. Options: -r<command> Use <command> to execute debian/rules binary with root (or faked root) privileges --target <target> Don't build package, just run 'debian/rules target' --cross-target <gnu-spec> Cross compile package for the given OS. ----- Basically, the proposed modifications to support convenient cross-compiling, and also to correctly support full architecture/os strings, work on setting environment variables. Since we might expect debian/rules files to only work properly when these variables are set, it seems to make sense to provide a tool which correctly sets them. Furthermore, dpkg-buildpackage could (it seems to me) be easily turned into that tool, since those tasks mesh well with dpkg-buildpackage's current task. And I really don't think that typing 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot --target binary' is all that much harder that 'fakeroot debian/rules binary'. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
