Launchpad pbuilderrc settings

Question

I have a custom package I want to publish via launchpad. In order to build it, I need the USENETWORK option to be enabled (this way build-tools have network access, which is required in my case). On my local machine, I can enable this by adding it to the pbuilderrc file.

But how can this be done for the builds pushed to launchpad? I couldn't find anything related to that on their website.

Answer 1

Looking around, I found that it is possible to set the following option to the debuild step. Remember that it is possible to add options to debuild through the pbuilder variable --debbuildopts='--set-env="whatever=0"'.

--preserve-env

Do not clean the environment, except for PATH.

--preserve-envvar=var, -evar

Do not clean the var variable from the environment. If var ends in an asterisk ("*") then all variables with names that match the portion of var before the asterisk will be preserved.

--set-envvar=var=value, -evar=value

Set the environment variable var to value and do not remove it from the environment.

This is taken from the debuild manual.