[16:55] <tgm4883> Trying to move some PPA builds into a recipe. Is there a way to write text into a file inside a build recipe? I'm trying to do this https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/zFbgzRT8cB/ but it doesn't look like LP supports running commands
[16:59] <cjwatson> You'd have to do that in debian/rules in a branch that's pulled in as part of the recipe.
[17:00] <tgm4883> hmm
[17:00] <tgm4883> I'm pretty sure that's where it currently is and it's failing, let me verify
[17:03] <tgm4883> cjwatson: yea that's how we did it before moving to recipes, inside of a sh file inside debian/rules
[17:04] <tgm4883> so that should work then and I should be looking at a different reason it's failing?
[17:14] <cjwatson> In principle yes
[17:15] <tgm4883> ok I'll keep digging then, thanks
[17:27] <cjwatson> np
[17:56] <tgm4883> cjwatson: talking with upstream on this and trying to figure out what is happening behind the scenes in each step. Trying to find out if it's using "git archive" to build the archive or something else
[17:56] <tgm4883> looking at the logs suggests that the version stuff we have is running, but it doesn't think it's a git repo
[17:59] <cjwatson> Ah yeah, dpkg-buildpackage from the recipe probably excludes .git
[18:00] <tgm4883> ah ok
[18:00] <cjwatson> Not sure there's much we/you can do about that I'm afraid
[18:03] <cjwatson> I don't recall the policy reasons why "run" is forbidden in Launchpad; might be worth revisiting that since recipe builds are well-sandboxed nowadays
[18:03] <cjwatson> (This was all before my time)