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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2018-01-03 01:59:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2018-01-16 11:26:37 +0100 |
| commit | 36f8ff64764d301d151e55c256b9913f1ada94e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 336cabcda2dab9d013d9afff5759a38882e4cda3 /doc | |
| parent | f6095fa5db1e4d277a0660806875375d60286250 (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-36f8ff64764d301d151e55c256b9913f1ada94e3.tar.gz | |
spec/R³: The DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD should preserve the environment
Proposed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/rootless-builds.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/rootless-builds.txt b/doc/rootless-builds.txt index 29b034a8d..68617d5b4 100644 --- a/doc/rootless-builds.txt +++ b/doc/rootless-builds.txt @@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ This command is subject to the same requirements as the "gain-root-command" that dpkg-buildpackage accepts via its "-r/--root-command" option, which means that it can contain space-separated parameters. If dpkg-buildpackage is called with "-r/--root-command", then dpkg-buildpackage shall use that value -as the value for "DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD". +as the value for "DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD". The command SHOULD preserve all the +environment variables, unmodified. The variable SHOULD only be provided when there is a need for it. Notably when "Rules-Requires-Root" is either "no" or "binary-targets" the variable |