Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 04:15:48AM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote: > dpkg-buildpackage definitely doesn't have (at least, I don't see it in the > manpage) anything as simple and straightforward as sbuild's "--binNMU" > option. But I'd be interested in hearing recipes for doing this with > dpkg-buildpac

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-08 Thread Brian Sammon
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:08:32 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-07-07 20:51 +0200, Brian Sammon wrote: > > > So I would have to install/learn "sbuild". > > If you just want to rebuild packages locally, this is not really > necessary. Are you saying there's another way to do what I want to do?

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-08 Thread Brian Sammon
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 20:39:06 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 02:51:40PM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote: > > So I would have to install/learn "sbuild". > > sbuild can be used to do it, but you don't need sbuild. I think > dpkg-buildpackage would be sufficient, dpkg-buildpackag

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 02:51:40PM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote: > So I would have to install/learn "sbuild". sbuild can be used to do it, but you don't need sbuild. I think dpkg-buildpackage would be sufficient, but you'd ideally do it in a chroot of some sort, which sbuild manages. Another tool to

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-07 20:51 +0200, Brian Sammon wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:55:22 +0100 > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> Packages in the archive with a "+bN" version suffix, such as "+b1", have be >> 'binNMUd': essentially rebuilt without any source changes because the >> environment has changed (such a

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Brian Sammon
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:55:22 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Packages in the archive with a "+bN" version suffix, such as "+b1", have be > 'binNMUd': essentially rebuilt without any source changes because the > environment has changed (such as a version bump of a library dependency). Ah! Thank y

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Packages in the archive with a "+bN" version suffix, such as "+b1", have been 'binNMUd': essentially rebuilt without any source changes because the environment has changed (such as a version bump of a library dependency). In your case it would be worthwhile documenting the fact your package differ

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 01:37:17AM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote: > I want to re-build a package for personal use, and have a special version > number for my custom build. > > Since I'm not planning on customizing the source or the debian control files, > I think the ideal choice is to build a b

building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-06 Thread Brian Sammon
I want to re-build a package for personal use, and have a special version number for my custom build. Since I'm not planning on customizing the source or the debian control files, I think the ideal choice is to build a binary package with a suffix like "+b1" or "+local" on the end. An example