[PATCH] user-specified temporary directory for deb-pkg

[PATCH] user-specified temporary directory for deb-pkg

[Frank Kingswood]

Hi,

The Debian package build can be very slow when running against a slow NFS 
server. This patch allows the user to set the BUILDTMP environment variable 
to move these temporaries somewhere local.

diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
index f6cbc3d..2f9d2ee 100644
--- a/scripts/package/builddeb
+++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
@@ -74,10 +74,20 @@ if [ -n "$KDEB_PKGVERSION" ]; then
  else
         packageversion=$version-$revision
  fi
-tmpdir="$objtree/debian/tmp"
-fwdir="$objtree/debian/fwtmp"
-kernel_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/hdrtmp"
-libc_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/headertmp"
+
+if [ -n "$BUILDTMP" ] ; then
+       mkdir -p "$BUILDTMP/debian"
+       tmpdir="$BUILDTMP/debian/tmp"
+       fwdir="$BUILDTMP/debian/fwtmp"
+       kernel_headers_dir="$BUILDTMP/debian/hdrtmp"
+       libc_headers_dir="$BUILDTMP/debian/headertmp"
+else
+       tmpdir="$objtree/debian/tmp"
+       fwdir="$objtree/debian/fwtmp"
+       kernel_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/hdrtmp"
+       libc_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/headertmp"
+fi
+
  packagename=linux-image-$version
  fwpackagename=linux-firmware-image
  kernel_headers_packagename=linux-headers-$version

Re: [PATCH] user-specified temporary directory for deb-pkg

[Michal Marek]

Dne 16.4.2012 14:39, Frank Kingswood napsal(a):
> Hi,
> 
> The Debian package build can be very slow when running against a slow
> NFS server. This patch allows the user to set the BUILDTMP environment
> variable to move these temporaries somewhere local.

The user can simply use make O=/some/directory .....

Michal

Re: [PATCH] user-specified temporary directory for deb-pkg

[Frank A. Kingswood]

On 23/04/12 19:59, Michal Marek wrote:
> Dne 16.4.2012 14:39, Frank Kingswood napsal(a):
>> The Debian package build can be very slow when running against a slow
>> NFS server. This patch allows the user to set the BUILDTMP environment
>> variable to move these temporaries somewhere local.
>>
>> The user can simply use make O=/some/directory .....
Thanks for the follow-up.

That's not the same thing. Building in-place is fine, I only want the 
deb-pkg temporaries in RAM disk.

If I use "make O=/dev/shm/somewhere/" then the whole tree is re-built 
into the new empty directory (as well as requiring me to copy over the 
.config).

Frank

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