Re: Versioning of KVM

Avi Kivity
2006-11-15T08:00:29Z

Baruch Even wrote:

>> My current tree has fixes for most of the problems. I'll look at the clean targets (why are they necessary for
>> packaging?)
>>
>
> Some of the packages are being built by other computers, I'm building on
> my machine only the i386 version and the amd64 is built by an
> auto-builder. The clean target is needed since otherwise there are the
> .d files which have absolute paths for my machine and my build
> environment, this will kill the auto builder. In my case I build for
> Debian testing on my machine and then use a chroot to do a clean build
> for Debian unstable, the .d files killed the chroot build as well.
>
> The Debian build process does a clean before it starts the build to make
> sure we do a pristine build every time to avoid such problems. It
> doesn't always work when upstream clean target doesn't really clean.
> Normally there is a clean target and distclean to really clean the
> package back to distribution state.
>
>

I don't understand. If you start from an empty directory and unpack the
archive there, you shouldn't have any problems. I don't see how .d
files can move from your machine to the autobuilder unless you added
them to the archive.

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