Re: make a backport package using pbuilder

2008-12-17 Thread John Dong
Ah, for official backports see the procedure at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports The procedure is more of a quality-assurance (testing) one rather than a build-and-upload workflow -- the build system takes care of the actual backporting work I'd recommend using prevu's build

Re: make a backport package using pbuilder

2008-12-17 Thread Schoap D
sorry for that noise, solved it... my fault What's next in the backport process? 2008/12/17 Schoap D > First I need to solve this > Command line parameter [nted_1.4.15-1ubuntu1.dsc] is not a valid .dsc file > name > > I can t build it right now... > > About uploading... what is the next step af

Re: make a backport package using pbuilder

2008-12-17 Thread Schoap D
First I need to solve this Command line parameter [nted_1.4.15-1ubuntu1.dsc] is not a valid .dsc file name I can t build it right now... About uploading... what is the next step after the request and the build of the package? Thanks, \s 2008/12/17 John Dong > Where are you trying to upload

Re: make a backport package using pbuilder

2008-12-17 Thread John Dong
Where are you trying to upload it to? On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Schoap D wrote: > > > 2008/12/17 Schoap D > > >> >> 2008/12/17 John Dong >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Schoap D wrote: >>> fakeroot debian/rules clean debian/rules:3: /usr/share/cdbs/1/rul

Re: make a backport package using pbuilder

2008-12-17 Thread Schoap D
2008/12/17 Schoap D > > > 2008/12/17 John Dong > >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Schoap D wrote: >> >>> >>> fakeroot debian/rules clean >>> debian/rules:3: /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk: No such file or >>> directory >>> debian/rules:4: /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk: No

Re: make a backport package using pbuilder

2008-12-17 Thread Schoap D
2008/12/17 John Dong > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Schoap D wrote: > >> >> fakeroot debian/rules clean >> debian/rules:3: /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk: No such file or >> directory >> debian/rules:4: /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk: No such file or >> directory >> debian/r

Re: make a backport package using pbuilder

2008-12-17 Thread John Dong
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Schoap D wrote: > > fakeroot debian/rules clean > debian/rules:3: /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk: No such file or > directory > debian/rules:4: /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk: No such file or > directory > debian/rules:5: /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patch

Re: make a backport package using pbuilder

2008-12-17 Thread Schoap D
I tried to backport nted, but got some errors: first here: $ dpkg-source -x nted_1.4.15-1.dsc gpg: Signature made Wed 12 Nov 2008 22:38:04 GMT using DSA key ID 30825345 gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found dpkg-source: extracting nted in nted-1.4.15 dpkg-source: info: unpacking nted_1

Re: make a backport package using pbuilder

2008-12-17 Thread John Dong
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Schoap D wrote: > > > Ok, thanks. > Is it just like a update process? > > apt-get source > wget > mv hello-2.3.tar.gz hello_2.3.orig.tar.gz > tar xfz hello_2.3.orig.tar.gz > cd hello_2.3/ > zcat ../hello_2.2-2.diff.gz | patch -p1 > dch -i > No, it's even simpler

Re: make a backport package using pbuilder

2008-12-17 Thread Schoap D
2008/12/17 John Dong > Backport building is even easier. For the most part, no source changes are > required. All you have to do is use "dch -i" to create a new changelog > entry(*) acknowledging that it's a backport, then run pbuilder on this new > source package. > > The exception is when the J

Re: make a backport package using pbuilder

2008-12-17 Thread John Dong
Backport building is even easier. For the most part, no source changes are required. All you have to do is use "dch -i" to create a new changelog entry(*) acknowledging that it's a backport, then run pbuilder on this new source package. The exception is when the Jaunty version requires a new build

make a backport package using pbuilder

2008-12-17 Thread Schoap D
Hi, I followed some documentation and video tutorials about ubuntu packaging with pbuilder. Now I'm wondering how to make a backport package, let say from Jaunty for Intrepid, using pbuilder? Thanks in advance, \s -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com Modify setting