* Johannes Schauer [Wed Oct 05, 2016 at 10:56:15AM +0200]: > On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:18:35 +0100 Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org> wrote: > > it would be great if there'd be an option like --ignore=VPKGLIST similar to > > the existing --checkonly=VPKGLIST option, but having the opposite behaviour: > > do not consider the provided arguments in the package report. This would > > allow usage of dose-distcheck with known-to-be-broken package(s), which is > > something you might e.g. have to deal with when introducing dose-distcheck > > in a new environment where you have known problems on existing (custom) > > repositories. > for the time being you can use grep-dctrl to filter your input Packages file > like this: > grep-dctrl --not --eregex --field Package '^(foo|bar|baz)$' ./Packages | distcheck ... > This will give you all packages except those named foo, bar and baz. > This works since distcheck is able to read the input Packages file from > standard input, so you don't even need a temporary file. Indeed, thanks for sharing this nice tip and commandline! regards, -mika-
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