Hi Andreas,
Thanks for the detailed instructions.
I'm echoing below all the things that I'm doing as I follow
your instructions. I'm hoping that this is aligned with your
MoM goal of improving a training path for new packagers.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote:
>
> Well, for the actual packaging it might be sufficient to simply check
> out a part of the Debian Med SVN which concerns fis-gtm:
>
> svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/fis-gtm
>
> However, it makes perfect sense to just get the whole tree
>
> svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med
>
>
I got to checkout the repository by using:
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/
more on this below...
>
> > About section 4, my IRC id is : luisibanez
>
> OK. In what time zone are you living?
>
I'm in New York timezone.
Will send you email first if we ever need to do IRC.
My suggestion for your next steps would be the following.
>
> 1. Check out SVN (as described above and please make sure you use
> svn+ssh - in case this will not work see the links for ssh tips
> in our policy document)
>
Doing:
svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/
gave me:
svn: Network connection closed unexpectedly
while, doing:
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/
(so, without ssh) actually did a normal checkout.
I'm guessing that for "svn+ssh" to work I should provide
my SSH public key to be placed somewhere in the server
side... is that right ?
My search for the policy document led me to:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
and also to installing the "debian-policy" package as:
sudo apt-get install debian-policy
then to find the documents under
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy
normal grepping there,
didn't return hits for "ssh" or "svn".
I'm probably missing something obvious here...
Could you please advise ?
2. cd fis-gtm/fis-gtm-server/trunk
>
Yeap, did:
cd debian-med/trunk/packages
cd fis-gtm/fis-gtm-server/trunk
3. make -f debian/rules get-orig-source
> # this is the usual way to get the original source
>
Did:
make -f debian/rules get-orig-source
Got:
uscan --force-download
make: uscan: Command not found
make: *** [get-orig-source] Error 127
Used apt-file to find that "uscan"
is in the "devscripts" package:
sudo apt-file find uscan
then installed the "devscripts" package with:
sudo apt-get install devscripts
rerun the command:
make -f debian/rules get-orig-source
got happy response:
uscan --force-download
fis-gtm-server: Version (54002B) available on remote site:
http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/fis-gtm/gtm_V54002B_linux_i686_src.tar.gz
(local version is 54002A)
fis-gtm-server: Successfully downloaded updated package
gtm_V54002B_linux_i686_src.tar.gz
and symlinked fis-gtm-server_54002B.orig.tar.gz to it
> 4. tar -xzf *.orig.tar.gz
>
>
The files turned out to be placed
one directory above "trunk" in:
debian-med/trunk/packages/fis-gtm/fis-gtm-server
Doing "ls -l" at that level showed :
fis-gtm-server_54002B.orig.tar.gz -> gtm_V54002B_linux_i686_src.tar.gz
gtm_V54002B_linux_i686_src.tar.gz
tags
trunk
In this directory, then I did:
tar -xzf *.orig.tar.gz
it went smoothly and produced:
COPYING
README
sr_i386
sr_linux
sr_port
sr_port_cm
sr_unix
sr_unix_cm
sr_unix_gnp
sr_unix_nsb
sr_x86_64
sr_x86_regs
tags
trunk
> Than you have two options:
>
> A) Read the policy document how to use svn-buildpackage
>
Google led me to this document:
http://debianpaket.de/svn-buildpackage/index.html
(put this path on hold, since it
requires concentrated reading..)
> B) Simply
> cp -a debian <source_directory>
> cd <source_directory>
> debuild
>
> We had some discusssions about automatisms (A) and doing things
> traditional (B). I would not call myself very traditional but I'm
> leaving old rock solid pathes only if I see large advantages. So
> finally I'm mostly doing B).
>
>
In path (B),
being in the directory
debian-med/trunk/packages/fis-gtm/fis-gtm-server/trunk
did the commands:
cp -a debian gtmsource
cd gtmsource/
debuild
and got back the message:
debuild: found debian/changelog for package fis-gtm-server in the directory
/tmp/debian-med/trunk/packages/fis-gtm/fis-gtm-server/trunk
but this directory name does not match the package name according to the
regex PACKAGE(-.+)?.
To run debuild on this package, see the --check-dirname-level and
--check-dirname-regex options; run debuild --help for more info.
Both should lead you to a Debian package.
not quite there yet...
but getting closer.
Please test it if it really
> builds or report your problems here.
>
>
So to summarize:
1) I need to learn how to use "svn+ssh://..."
2) I need to read fully the policy document
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
(do I got the right document ?)
3) I have to read the instructions on
svn-buildpackage
to learn about path (A).
Is this below, the right document ?:
http://debianpaket.de/svn-buildpackage/index.html
4) I can use advice on what went wrong
when attempting path (B).
I'll do (2) and (3) as homework.
Thanks
Luis
