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Wed Jul 30 17:08:51 UTC 2008
This target fetches the most recent version of the original source package
from a canonical archive site (via FTP or WWW, for example), does any
necessary rearrangement to turn it into the original source tar file format
described below, and leaves it in the current directory.
This target may be invoked in any directory, and should take care to clean
up any temporary files it may have left.
This target is optional, but providing it if possible is a good idea.
- http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules
Adding a get-orig-source target to a package using cdbs does not allow for
invoking the target from any directory as cdbs assumes that CURDIR is set to the
root of the package when assigning variables in buildvars.mk.
Sample errors you get trying to invoke get-orig-source from outside the root:
egrep: debian/control: No such file or directory
tail: cannot open `debian/changelog' for reading: No such file or directory
dpkg-parsechangelog: failure: tail of debian/changelog gave error exit status 1
tail: cannot open `debian/changelog' for reading: No such file or directory
dpkg-parsechangelog: failure: tail of debian/changelog gave error exit status 1
cannot read debian/control: No such file or directory
A possible solution for this would be to add a variable similar to:
DEB_ROOT = $(abspath $(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))../)
This grabs the debian package root and could be used in conjunction with the
non-target related operations taking place in buildvars.mk.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.3-bytemark-uml-2
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages cdbs depends on:
ii debhelper 7.0.16 helper programs for debian/rules
Versions of packages cdbs recommends:
ii autotools-dev 20080123.2 Update infrastructure for config.{
Versions of packages cdbs suggests:
ii devscripts 2.10.35 scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii doc-base 0.8.16 utilities to manage online documen
-- no debconf information
--
Noah Slater, http://bytesexual.org/nslater
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