Created attachment 243598 [details] [review]
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Here's a tiny patch that implements this.  With this change, if 'skip' contains '*' then jhbuild will build only the modules you've explicitly listed in your jhbuildrc.

Review of attachment 243598 [details] [review]:

Err...why wouldn't you just use "buildone" for this?

There are a couple of reasons:

1.  I want to list a bunch of modules in my jhbuildrc and type 'jhbuild' to build them all, without any of their dependencies.  'jhbuild buildone' can't do that since it requires me to name the modules I want to build.

2. Expanding on point 1, I actually *do* want to build dependencies, but only the ones I've named in my jhbuildrc.  In other words, if my jhbuildrc lists epiphany, webkit and gtk+, then when I type 'jhbuild epiphany' I'd like jhbuild to build all three of those modules in correct dependency order.  But I don't want it to build any of the 27 other dependencies that epiphany would normally bring in.

The attached patch yields exactly this behavior when I include this line in my jhbuildrc:

skip = ['*']

Review of attachment 243598 [details] [review]:

Ok, personally if I am getting to that kind of specialized subset of things I just drive it directly by cd ~/src/module && jhbuild make.  But this is OK as an easter egg...

OK.  I've already found this pretty useful.  As long as I'm committing this, would you prefer it remain undocumented (i.e. an easter egg) or can I update the jhbuild manual to mention this special skip value?

(In reply to comment #5)
> OK.  I've already found this pretty useful.  As long as I'm committing this,
> would you prefer it remain undocumented (i.e. an easter egg) or can I update
> the jhbuild manual to mention this special skip value?

I honestly don't have a sense of how many other people would find this useful.  If you think they would, please do add it to the manual.

OK - I documented it.