Hi! On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 11:35:36 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > how can we disable parallel-by-default builds now? > #842845 was not all to clear in that. > > Reasons: > • build something on a desktop while working in parallel > • build several packages in parallel > • run multiple buildd instances in parallel > > So we need something that works no matter how deep dpkg > is actually called from within sbuild or pbuilder/cowbuilder > (or whatever). Writing to a conffile in the chroot is > probably good.
You can do one of these: * Pass DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=1 * Pass -J1 or --jobs-try=1 * Set jobs-try=1 in one of the dpkg-buildpackage.conf files I'll try to clarify the man page a bit more. Thanks, Guillem
