Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (262 mails)

[Luke Imhoff <luke@xxxxxxxx>]

Jan-Simon Möller wrote:
> Am Tuesday 11 August 2009 20:15:05 schrieb David Greaves:
>   
> > Luke Imhoff wrote:
> >     
> > > Maybe this goes against the philosphy of the build script, but couldn't
> > > you use rsync instead of taring and untaring?  This would help with a
> > > use case where our users are complaining about having to tar and untar
> > > big things, like the kernel-source, when doing development.  We could
> > > just treat their Subversion workareas as the overlay directory and
> > > overlay it where kernel-source.tar.bz2 would be untarred normally.  This
> > > would necessitate specifying the root of the overlay in the chroot
> > > though, so may make this overcomplicated.
> > >       
> > I could use that for Qt too:
> >
> >  --overlay <source path>[ = <target path>]
> >
> > where <target path> defaults to / but would often be /usr/src/packages/BUILD
> >
> >     
>
>
> Ok, a version using rsync is working, but its not that easy ;) - atm I'm testing
> rpm build and rpmbuild will do %prep and %setup . This inclues a 
> "rm <name-version>; tar -xf name-version.tar". So the rsynced tree is lost :P .
>
> Assuming the rsynced tree needs no patches and setup and stuff, I'll handle that
> for rpm, but we've to see how debian extracts the sources and if it can be 
> tweaked.
>
> Best,
> Jan-Simon
>   
Yes, I know about the %setup issue.  I haven't found a generic 
solution.  Also to save the make build products you have to skip %clean 
also.  The kernel has a non-standard %prep, so it's not the best one to 
find a generic solution.
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