Re: apt-get internals help
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:40:34AM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> On Saturday 06 September 2003 07:34, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > You cannot hope to write a script smart enough to modify an arbitrary
> > debian/rules to do what you want. What you need to do is to come up with a
> > useful standard for passing this kind of option to debian/rules, and modify
> > packages to support it.
>
> It might be easier if more debian/rules files respect DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
> I'm not sure what the policies say about that, but could that be a standard ?
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is for generic options which apply to almost any package.
What you want are package-specific options, like enabling or disabling
features. An environment variable would be a reasonable way to implement
it, but I think it should be separate from DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
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- mdz
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