Bug#863582: Allow configurable build directory

2017-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#863582: Allow configurable build directory"): > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 07:47:14PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Even with that flag, dgit writes some (but not all) of its output files in > > the parent directory (pieces of the source packa

Bug#863582: Allow configurable build directory

2017-06-18 Thread Sean Whitton
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 07:47:14PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > % dgit --build-products-dir ~/foo gbp-build > > This appears to not work. In fact, there appears to be no way to get dgit > to work with gbp-buildpackage if you set an export-dir in your ~/.gbp.conf > (at least in some brief ex

Bug#863582: Allow configurable build directory

2017-06-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > I believe that Ian's intention is that the build tool should be > configured to put build products somewhere else, and then dgit should be > told where they are using --build-products-dir. I.e. you have > ~/.gbp.conf telling gbp where to put build products, and then >

Bug#863582: Allow configurable build directory

2017-05-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Control: forcemerge 857316 -1 Sean Whitton writes: > I believe that Ian's intention is that the build tool should be > configured to put build products somewhere else, and then dgit should be > told where they are using --build-products-dir. I.e. you have > ~/.gbp.conf telling gbp where to put

Bug#863582: Allow configurable build directory

2017-05-28 Thread Sean Whitton
On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 01:38:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I use git-buildpackage for all of my package building, and one reason why > is that I deeply dislike the default Debian behavior of cluttering the > parent directory with random package build files. git-buildpackage has > always suppo

Bug#863582: Allow configurable build directory

2017-05-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: dgit Version: 3.10 Severity: wishlist I use git-buildpackage for all of my package building, and one reason why is that I deeply dislike the default Debian behavior of cluttering the parent directory with random package build files. git-buildpackage has always supported configuring a bui