On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 12:44:06PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > I think you're overengineering. There are basicaly two use cases: > > a- Developer building a package for a specific purpose (e.g. testing > an improvement), wanting to speed up this specific build. > > b- Buildd admin wanting to speed up build of the overall archive [1]. > > (a) can be archieved simply by adding a flag to dpkg-buildpackage, such > that when used it will pass the corresponding -j flag to make when invoking > debian/rules (for consistency, it could also be -j) [2] [4].
Actually, you might be interested in knowing that this is possible right now, without any change in dpkg-buildpackage, by using command injection via gain-root-command: dpkg-buildpackage -r"fakeroot make -j 2 -f" Would still be nice to do this a bit more cleanly ;-). I'll send a patch to dpkg maintainers. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
