+ * debian/rules: add check target for build.

+
+	* Makefile (check): add check target to makefile, to see if there is
+	any syntax error.
+
+	* pbuilder-updatebuildenv: support --preserve-buildplace
+	apply things from
+	Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>
+
+	* pbuilder-satisfydepends: support --preserve-buildplace
+	support Format: field.
+
+	* pbuilder-modules (pbuilder-options): support --preserve-buildplace
+
+	* pbuilder-buildpackage (PACKAGENAME): support --preserve-buildplace
+
+	* pbuilder-buildpackage-funcs: support --preserve-buildplace
+
+	* pbuilder-createbuildenv (DEBOOTSTRAPSCRIPT): support --preserve-buildplace
+
+	* pbuilder-checkparams (PRESERVE_BUILDPLACE): add PRESERVE_BUILDPLACE
+
+	* pbuilder.8: update docs to add --preserve-buildplace
+

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pbuilder.8 b/pbuilder.8
index 464b736..b926694 100644
--- a/pbuilder.8
+++ b/pbuilder.8
@@ -347,11 +347,35 @@ will not be deleted and reconstructed from
 a 
 .B .tar.gz
 file.
+Also, 
+.B "pbuilder"
+will not add its process ID to the
+.B "--buildplace"
+as it usually would.
 
 Useful when experimenting with 
 chroots, or trying to create chroots outside control
 of
-.B pbuilder.
+.B "pbuilder."
+
+.TP
+.BI "--preserve-buildplace"
+Do not clean the
+.B "--buildplace"
+if it has the same contents as the
+.B .tar.gz
+file.  As with
+.BR "--no-targz" ","
+suppresses appending
+.BR "pbuilder" "'s"
+process ID to the
+.BR "--buildplace" "."
+
+This is useful if you want to attempt to build a large number of
+packages successively, but you expect that many of them cannot have
+their build dependencies satisfied.
+
+
 
 .SH "FILES"
 .TP