Skip building components installed via packaging.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bin/taler-deployment b/bin/taler-deployment
index e2e7b58..58df3db 100755
--- a/bin/taler-deployment
+++ b/bin/taler-deployment
@@ -475,7 +475,13 @@ def build() -> None:
     for r in stale:
         p = Path.home() / "sources" / r.name
         os.chdir(str(p))
-        r.builder(r, p)  # type: ignore
+        tag = getattr(cfg, "tag_" + r.name.replace("-", "_"))
+        # Usually a None tag indicates that the artifact was already installed 
+        # via some packaging mechanism, like Debian packages.  There is no
+        # need to build it then.
+        if not tag:
+            continue
+        r.builder(r, p)
 
 
 @cli.command()