Re: Building packages twice in a row

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:

> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't it be better to unpack a package twice in two different
>> directories, build and clean in one dir and then compare the obtained
>> tree with the tree available in the other dir?
>
> I personally store the diff.gz from first build and compare with a
> second build - which is basically the same as your suggestion, but
> perhaps not consuming so much space.
>
> Kind regards
>
>         Andreas.

Or build binary, clean, build source, debdiff old.dsc new.dsc |
diffstat. That gives a nice output for the bugreport.

MfG
        Goswin