bzr-builder

Please add a rm command

Bug #617653 reported by Benjamin Drung
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Bug Description

Please add a remove command that works similar to 'run rm -rf'. This command should only delete files in the branch directory. 'rm ../foo' should not be allowed. The remove command could be mapped on 'bzr rm'.

My use case is to get the latest upstream trunk branch, bundle it with the latest Ubuntu packaging branch, and remove all Ubuntu patches. Here's the corresponding recipe:

# bzr-builder format 0.3 deb-version {debupstream}+svn{date}+r{revno}-0
lp:audacity
nest-part packaging lp:ubuntu/audacity debian debian
run rm -rf debian/patches

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
description: updated
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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

You can merge in a branch that does removes. Would that take care of your use case?

Changed in bzr-builder:
status: New → Incomplete
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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

Not really. The rm command is universal. The branch that does the removal needs to be updated frequently.

Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
Changed in bzr-builder:
status: Incomplete → New
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
Changed in bzr-builder:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote :

I have another use case which is to build from a branch that already has a debian/ structure, but I want to use my own from another packaging-only branch. Something like:

# bzr-builder format 0.3 deb-version {debupstream}+{revno}-0landscape1~{revno:packaging}
lp:txaws
nest-part packaging lp:~landscape/txaws/txaws-landscape-package debian debian

But a local "debian/" already exists, and the packaging branch only has "debian/". So I can't use merge, nor would I want to keep updating the packaging branch with code changes all the time.

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