Package: debhelper
Version: 7.3.15
Severity: minor
I have override rules that need to know whether they're being called from a
binary-arch vs. binary-indep target, viz:
override_dh_fixperms:
dh_fixperms
ifeq (,$(findstring -i, $(DH_INTERNAL_OPTIONS)))
chgrp shadow $(d)/libpam-modules/sbin/unix_chkpwd
chmod 02755 $(d)/libpam-modules/sbin/unix_chkpwd
endif
These commands must always be run when dh_fixperms is called for binary-arch
or binary, and must never be run when dh_fixperms is called for binary-indep,
since in that case the file won't exist and the commands will error out. I
/could/ check for file's existence instead, but I think that's an
unsatisfactory proxy; if something changes that causes this file to not be
there when it's expected (say, it moves around in the filesystem or moves to
a different package), this command should error out instead of being silently
discarded.
So the only way I can achieve this robustness is by checking the
DH_INTERNAL_OPTIONS env variable, but that's undocumented AFAICS. It would
be good to have a documented interface for querying the -a/-i options that
override rules can rely on.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.19.51.20090805-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3.1 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii html2text 1.3.2a-14 advanced HTML to text converter
ii man-db 2.5.5-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl 5.10.0-25 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-base 5.10.0-25 minimal Perl system
ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii dh-make 0.48 tool that converts source archives
-- no debconf information
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