Comment 4 for bug 810098

It would be great if support for this would be added.

Thanks,
Jared

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:23 PM, James Westby <email address hidden>wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:57:32 -0000, Jared Szechy <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
> > Yes, I would like the debian directory to be placed at
> > kegbot/pykeg/debian.
> >
> > The package is entirely within the kegbot/pykeg directory though, so I'm
> > not sure how to get this to build properly.
>
> We could extend the format to allow specifying a root directory for the
> base branch, and everything would then be done relative to that.
>
> I'm not sure how well it would work for some things, and it wouldn't
> support the pristine-tar integration if you have multiple packages in a
> tree, but would work for you.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
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> Title:
> dailybuild source in subdirectory of branch
>
> Status in bzr-builder:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I have a repo branch that i have mirrored in Launchpad that I am
> trying to setup a daily build. The problem is that the source
> directory of the package is a subdirectory in the branch. When
> building locally it's no problem because I can just change to that
> directory. However with launchpad's bzr-builder it does everything
> from the top directory in the branch.
>
> My current build recipe is:
>
> # bzr-builder format 0.3 deb-version
> {debupstream}-{revno}-{revno:packaging}
> lp:kegbot
> nest-part packaging lp:~szechyjs/kegbot/kegbot_debian debian debian
>
> Ideally I would use `lp:kegbot/pykeg` but this is not possible in bzr.
>
> Is there a easy way I can build the package in the kegbot/pykeg
> directory, by setting it up in my recipe or some kind of source
> directory variable in the rules file?
>
> I've asked around on various support sites about this, people say what
> I'm trying to accomplish is not supported. Is this true that this is
> not possible? If so can a feature be added to implement this?
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