On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:21:30 +0000 Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> wrote:
> >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> writes: > > Andreas> On 2014-02-05 10:57, Sam Hartman wrote: > >> tarballs useful; anyone who is likely to want to build this > >> from source probably has a copy of git and can checkout a tag. > > Andreas> Such a tag corresponds to an upstrema version? > > yes. > > >> I'm happy to entertain other options rather than 3.0(native) > >> but my requirements are: > >> > >> * support for upstream version * support for debian revision > >> > >> * No need to have upstream sources available to > >> dpkg-buildpackage prior to running it > >> > >> * No need to maintain .orig.tar.gz artifacts produced by > >> dpkg-source and keep the checksums of these artifacts > >> consistent between packages with the same upstream versions. > > Andreas> All this sounds like it can be done with git-buildpackage > Andreas> --git-pristine-tar --git-pristine-tar-commit. Can be set > Andreas> in debian/gbp.conf. And maybe dpkg-source > Andreas> --single-debian-patch. > > no, that means I have to maintain the artifact (namely the > .orig.tar.gz). > The archive software (both reprepro and dak were I to use that) > require that the .orig.tar.gz not change checksums. Using packages to support upstream development is a common problem and this is exactly where things get awkward. For my own role within an upstream team, I'm considering using "unofficial" or "developer" upstream tarball releases. We'll probably use a date based tag 2014.02 etc for the main monthly release. Developer builds will have a shortened git hash appended (this happens to match our existing deployment method) like 2014.02.234fdga2 and incremental upstream releases will use tag.01 etc. so 2014.02.01 This has advantages that developers self-verify that the tarballs work which finds problems due to new files not being included in the tarball. It also retains the upstream packaging behaviour. > I don't want my build machines to be able to push back to my master > repository. > Nor do I want to have to release upstream versions if I lose state on > my build machines. > So this violates my requirements because I have to maintain an > artifact of dpkg-source (the .orig.tar.gz) and makesure its checksum > never changes. > > Also, using git-buildpackage is difficult. > The build is done by sbuild, which does not call git-buildpackage. Not true. There are options to use debuild or pdebuild or dpkg-buildpackage in-place. e.g. I use: [DEFAULT] #builder = git-pbuilder builder = debuild cleaner = fakeroot debian/rules clean pristine-tar = True [git-buildpackage] export-dir = ../build-area/ tarball-dir = ../tarballs/ -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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