Building from upstream CVS HEAD (was: [Pkg-torrus-general] Torrus debs)

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 11:31:17AM -0400, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
> >I have obviously been unable to generate the .orig.tar.gz necessary
> >for the package build. I have checked out upstream CVS head and tried
> >running autoreconf on the checked out tree. This delivers the
> >following error messages:
> 
> Hm, I haven't thought about building the source packages yet (even though 
> it is probably trivial). You can prepare the build environment by checking 
> out the stuff from svn (which will give you only debian subdir) and 
> running 'debian/rules build-setup'. Then it is possible to run 'binary' 
> target as usual (no autoreconf required).

NACK. Upstream CVS head doesn't have a configure script, and your
build-setup target only unpacks a release tarball which upstream
doesn't seem to publish at the moment.

btw, svn-buildpackage has options to automatically unpack upstream
sources when building, and the dpatch from experimental has a
dpatch-edit-patch script which can unpack upstream sources on the fly
as well.

Greetings
Marc

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