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Re: pdebuild, not removing build environment



On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 13:57 +0300, Eric Pozharski wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:14:07AM +0000, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 11:39 +0300, Eric Pozharski wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > Just replace "exec bash" with "killall -9 pbuilder". But seriously it's
> > pointless. If you keep the Bash prompt from that hook I posted earlier
> > open, you can poke around inside the chroot, and if you wish, you could
> > do the killing of pbuilder yourself, as it'll wait for you to close that
> > prompt.
> 
> Exactly.  But OP wanted to keep tree (for unknown reason).
> 
> 
Probably to inspect it post-fail. Which is doable with the bash hook =)
-- 
Chow Loong Jin

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