Re: dpkg-buildpackage now sets DEB_BUILD_HOST etc for you?

Sune Vuorela <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.embedded,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Organization pusling.com internet technologies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2012-03-29, Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Wookey wrote:
>> Anyone know when this happened and what if any, the limitations are?
>> It's certainly true in wheezy, squeeze, precise and oineiric. 
>
> This has always been the case ever since dpkg-architecture has been
> introduced.
>
> But you should not rely on this because calling debian/rules directly
> must be supported.

There was - at least in the past - also buildds on some archs using
'sudo' for the debian/rules binary part of the build

And 'sudo' strips parts of the environment ...

/Sune
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