Re: generating patches for debian packages

2007-04-13 Thread Kees Cook
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:47:59AM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Kamaraju S Kusumanchi may or may not have written... > > Now I change somefiles inside foo. How can I easily generate a patch so > > that I can send it to bts/maintainer etc.,? Currently what I do is unpack > > You could

Adding quilt to the new maintainer guide.

2007-04-13 Thread Charles Plessy
[Thread broken to avoid thread hijacking] Le Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 01:48:18AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : > a lot of packages already use dpatch or quilt, which makes adding > new patches to the build process pretty easy. If they're not used > yet - adding the neccessary stuff to debian/rules is

Re: Adding quilt to the new maintainer guide.

2007-04-13 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Charles, * Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-13 12:11]: > [Thread broken to avoid thread hijacking] > > Le Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 01:48:18AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : > > a lot of packages already use dpatch or quilt, which makes adding > > new patches to the build process pretty e

Re: generating patches for debian packages

2007-04-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Kamaraju S. Kusumanchi: > unpack the source again into another temp directory and then use "diff -r" > and then delete the temp directory. But this is time consuming. Is there > any easy way? I usually load the Debian package into some version control system prior to making changes. For instan

Re: Adding quilt to the new maintainer guide.

2007-04-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Charles Plessy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070413 09:28]: > Nevertheless, I tried quilt this week and I like it a > lot. Actually, I find it simpler than dpatch because it is not > necessary to convert the patches to a special format. I would like to > submit a patch to the new maintainer guide to

Re: Adding quilt to the new maintainer guide.

2007-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Charles Plessy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070413 09:28]: >> Nevertheless, I tried quilt this week and I like it a >> lot. Actually, I find it simpler than dpatch because it is not >> necessary to convert the patches to a special format. I would like to

Re: Adding quilt to the new maintainer guide.

2007-04-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070413 20:01]: > Even if you don't use quilt to apply the patches at build time, using the > quilt utilities to construct the patches is still a good idea. I've never > seen anything that can manage a set of patches as smoothly and as > intuitively as quilt. Fa

staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Hi all I want to run software only from Stable (ie Etch) when I am doing non-debian related work. However, when I am doing debian related work (ex :- fixing some bugs in the BTS) I want to work in unstable (ex :- compile packages for sid). Is this kind of think possible? The easiest idea is to

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Kamaraju! On 4/13/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any other elegant solution? I have heard about chroot, pbuilder etc., Will they be of any help in this scenario? Yep. I would go with pbuilder. ;-) Best regards, Nelson -- bash: ~/bin/program-to-generate-a-ran

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 17:33 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi all > I want to run software only from Stable (ie Etch) when I am doing > non-debian related work. However, when I am doing debian related work > (ex :- fixing some bugs in the BTS) I want to work in unstable (ex :- > compile

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:33:29PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > I want to run software only from Stable (ie Etch) when I am doing > non-debian related work. However, when I am doing debian related work > (ex :- fixing some bugs in the BTS) I want to work in unstable (ex :- > compile p

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2007/4/13, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You have several choices here: * Use pbuilder to setup a build environment. "heavyweight" but simple. * Use chroots for building. simple and well understood. These two choices suffer in that you can't get a graphical environme

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Székelyi Szabolcs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Kemp wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:33:29PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > >> I want to run software only from Stable (ie Etch) when I am doing >> non-debian related work. However, when I am doing debian related work >> (ex :- fi

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:15:48AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: >These two choices suffer in that you can't get a graphical > environment within them. So if you build a package for sid > which used Xorg you couldn't test it. > >That's not exactly sure. You'll have a bit overhe

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:26:24PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:15:48AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > >These two choices suffer in that you can't get a graphical > > environment within them. So if you build a package for sid > > which used Xorg you could

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 06:37:41PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira a écrit : > > On 4/13/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there any other elegant solution? I have heard about chroot, pbuilder > >etc., Will they be of any help in this scenario? > > Yep. I would go with pbuil

index for maint-guide

2007-04-13 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Hi I think it would be useful, if we can add an index to the maint-guide. It would be cool if index can be added to other documents such as debian-reference-en, but I am more concerned for developer's documents. I can file a wishlist bug, if necessary. thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi ht

Re: Adding quilt to the new maintainer guide.

2007-04-13 Thread Charles Plessy
> * Charles Plessy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070413 09:28]: > > Nevertheless, I tried quilt this week and I like it a > > lot. Actually, I find it simpler than dpatch because it is not > > necessary to convert the patches to a special format. I would like to > > submit a patch to the new maintainer

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Steve Kemp wrote: > Sure, I primarily thinking of pbuilder when I wrote that. Sorry! You can use unionfs wth a (pbuilder) chroot to test most things without damaging the pristine nature of the build environment. Secondly you need not run a full-fledged X server unl

Re: staying in stable but compiling for sid

2007-04-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > The easiest idea is to run two machines one with unstable and one with > stable. But I dont have the luxury of running two machines. Use vmware/kvm/xen/uml/qemu/whatever... so you can run virtual machines (very small ones should be ok for doing small developments and

Re: Adding quilt to the new maintainer guide.

2007-04-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Charles Plessy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070414 05:19]: > > * Charles Plessy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070413 09:28]: > > > Nevertheless, I tried quilt this week and I like it a > > > lot. Actually, I find it simpler than dpatch because it is not > > > necessary to convert the patches to a special format