Re: pdebuild, not removing build environment
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:36:50AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 18:21 +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:51:35PM +0200, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
> > > Sorry if I have missed something obvious but, in case of error during
> > > build. How can I keep the pbuilder environment when I use pdebuild. I don't
> > > want pdebuild to remove the chroot environment after the error occurs.
> > ---end quoted text---
> >
> > Well, the only method that I know is do a pbuilder login, then I build
> > the package (after manually apt-get'ing its Build-Deps), so:
> >
> > $ pbuilder login
> > # apt-get install <build deps>
> > # dpkg-source -x <source package>.dsc
> > # cd <source package top dir>
> > # ./debian/rules build (or whatever)
>
> A hook would save you all that trouble. I have a hook called C00Bash
> which looks like this:
> ========8<=========
> #!/bin/sh
> exec bash
> ========>8=========
>
> After a build (only if there's a failure), it'll drop to a Bash prompt
> within the chroot, whereby you can head to /tmp/buildd/ and examine why
> things went the way they did.
(just my 2cent) Someone interested could develop a hook that after
looking for parent processes (it should go far enough) just would kill
pbuilder. This must be SIGKILL; otherwise the signal could be trapped.
p.s I'm not interested -- so I'm not that someone.
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