the stdout fd contains the build log

Using a pipe enables streaming of logs, which would not be possible with
a regular file output.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mdbp/pbuilder.py b/mdbp/pbuilder.py
index 8e2556d..a5f734a 100644
--- a/mdbp/pbuilder.py
+++ b/mdbp/pbuilder.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ def main() -> None:
     args = parser.parse_args()
     build = args.buildjson
 
+    enablelog = build["output"].get("log", True)
     if build.get("lintian", {}).get("run"):
         raise ValueError("running lintian not supported")
     if "bd-uninstallable-explainer" in build:
@@ -55,9 +56,15 @@ def main() -> None:
                         build.get("type", "binary")])
     cmd.extend(profile_option(build, "--profiles"))
     cmd.extend(["--buildresult", build["output"]["directory"]])
+    if not enablelog:
+        cmd.extend(["--loglevel", "E"])
     with get_dsc(build) as dscpath:
         cmd.append(str(dscpath))
-        proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=compute_env(build))
+        proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=compute_env(build),
+                                stdout=None if enablelog
+                                       else subprocess.DEVNULL,
+                                stderr=subprocess.STDOUT if enablelog
+                                       else subprocess.DEVNULL)
         sys.exit(proc.wait())
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":