Dmitry Samoyloff schreef:
Hello,
Recently, I've backported gnash-0.8.7 to the gNewSense-2.3 and Sam Geeraerts
suggested me to make a patch for the Builder. The documentation I've found is
somewhat sparse, so let me ask some questions here (please pardon me if they
are stupid, I'm a newbie in gNewSense development ;-)).
1. The page [1] seems to be relevant to my task, but it describes modifying
the version of package that is already in the original distro. I need to add a
newer version of the package (supposedly to the backports repo), not just a
patched revision of the existing one. Can somebody point me to the example of
such a change being done to the gNewSense already?
If you branched Builder in bzr you'll find the packages specific to
gNewSense in the packages/deltah/ directory. Your case is unusual
because it's not a completely new package. I don't think that's a problem.
2. Is it necessary to download all the GBs and rebuild everything else in a
distro to make my job done (adding a new version of a package to the backports
repo)?
You don't need all of it, but you would need enough of the Ubuntu mirror
to debootstrap a chroot environment + the build dependencies of the
package(s) you want to build. I don't know of an automated way to do that.
Alternatively, you could limit yourself to hardy main (so not include
-security/-updates/-backports and universe) in your debmirror. We don't
do 64 bit, so you can skip amd64 in any case.
Yet another option is to just study the code and provide a patch (or
steps to take) that you think will work. :)
Thanks in advance for your answers and patience :-)
[1] http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/ModifyingANewPackage
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