On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 28, 2014, at 10:52 AM, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > >>I'm new to building packages by using pbuilder tool, and I have to build >>a package multiple times before it builds successfully, or in the way >>I prefer. > > This is one of the reasons why I prefer to use sbuild for most of my local > builds. You can tell it to preserve the chroot when the build fails, and it's > easy to go in, inspect the build environment, and tweak your package into > building. Occasionally, it's even useful to preserve the chroot when the > package build succeeds, just to poke around.
Pbuilder also supports that using hooks, e.g.: # ln -s /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/C10shell /var/cache/pbuilder/hooks/C10shell ...and the next time your build fails, pbuilder will dump you in the chroot with a shell. Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caczd_tbhnngnv4azwcytbtit1n4uitplm_epwmqngjmw2_a...@mail.gmail.com

