Hi, Please consider adding following as a starter of EXAMPLES section. The patch is against SVN 2009-12-18 r14958.
Jari
>From f1fb09858ce08f0caf085bfac564417af39d072b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jari Aalto <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:31:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc/svn-buildpackage.xml: Add EXAMPLES section Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <[email protected]> --- doc/svn-buildpackage.xml | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/svn-buildpackage.xml b/doc/svn-buildpackage.xml index 7f50a1a..4961972 100644 --- a/doc/svn-buildpackage.xml +++ b/doc/svn-buildpackage.xml @@ -422,6 +422,41 @@ $ svn propset useNativeDist 1 debian </variablelist> </refsect1> <refsect1> + <title>EXAMPLES</title> + <para> + To start working with existing Debian package from a *.dsc file, import + it into the repository with command: + </para> + <screen> +svn-inject package_1.1-1.dsc svn://host/debian/devel/packages + </screen> + <para> + To test building the package from SVN repository, use command below. Refer + to dpkg-buildpackage(1) manual page for the -us etc. options. + </para> + <screen> +svn-buildpackage --svn-lintian -us -uc -rfakeroot + </screen> + <para> + To check that package build in a clean state, test it with pbuilder(1): + </para> + <screen> +mkdir ../build-area # To store results +svn-buildpackage \ + --svn-ignore-new \ + --svn-builder="pdebuild --buildresult $(pwd)/../build-area" + </screen> + <para> + When a new upstream release becomes available, commit all changes and + have the working tree in clean state. Then use svn-upgrade(1) to import + the new release: + </para> + <screen> +svn status # The that there are no uncommited changed +svn-upgrade --verbose ../package-2.0.tar.gz + </screen> + </refsect1> + <refsect1> <title>CONFIGURATION FILE</title> <para>svn-buildpackage's behaviour can be modified using the file ~/.svn-buildpackage.conf. Additional parts can be added in each package -- 1.6.5
