[PATCH] user-specified temporary directory for deb-pkg

[Frank A. Kingswood]

Hi,

The Debian package build can be very slow when running against a slow 
NFS server. This patch allows the user to set the BUILDTMP environment 
variable to move these temporaries somewhere local.

diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
index f6cbc3d..2f9d2ee 100644
--- a/scripts/package/builddeb
+++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
@@ -74,10 +74,20 @@ if [ -n "$KDEB_PKGVERSION" ]; then
 else
        packageversion=$version-$revision
 fi
-tmpdir="$objtree/debian/tmp"
-fwdir="$objtree/debian/fwtmp"
-kernel_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/hdrtmp"
-libc_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/headertmp"
+
+if [ -n "$BUILDTMP" ] ; then
+       mkdir -p "$BUILDTMP/debian"
+       tmpdir="$BUILDTMP/debian/tmp"
+       fwdir="$BUILDTMP/debian/fwtmp"
+       kernel_headers_dir="$BUILDTMP/debian/hdrtmp"
+       libc_headers_dir="$BUILDTMP/debian/headertmp"
+else
+       tmpdir="$objtree/debian/tmp"
+       fwdir="$objtree/debian/fwtmp"
+       kernel_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/hdrtmp"
+       libc_headers_dir="$objtree/debian/headertmp"
+fi
+
 packagename=linux-image-$version
 fwpackagename=linux-firmware-image
 kernel_headers_packagename=linux-headers-$version

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