feature request: implement simple package exclusion list
As packages are built in a deterministic order, it is not by default possible to "skip" any problematic packages in order to continue to make debugging progress. The current workaround is to grep -v
or similar, to pare down the list of packages to be built. This poses several problems:
- These changes cannot made while autobuilder is executing;
- These changes are difficult to maintain and transfer to other build servers;
- Excluding a single package does not exclude its dependencies;
- Excluding a single package does not exclude its reverse dependencies;
Implement a mechanism to exclude a list of packages, and all packages which depend on them.