On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 10:28:26PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Package: schroot > Version: 1.6.1-1 > > I did this > git-clone git://git.debian.org/git/buildd-tools/schroot schroot.git > and then tried various things to try to build the source code. > > None of my attempts were successful. I assume it must be possible > somehow. Please could this be documented. Ideally I would like to be > able to run git-buildpackage or dpkg-buildpackage and make a .deb > directly from the git repo.
This is the "upstream" as well as "debian" source code. It just needs the autotools bootstrapping in order to build. You just need to run ./bootstrap and then you're good to go. I can document this in the README. It wasn't documented because it's common to most autotools-using projects which have a bootstrap or autogen.sh script. If you want the specific 1.6.1-1 release, I would suggest running git checkout release/schroot-1.6.1 or git checkout debian/schroot-1.6.1-1 (in this case, they are one and the same thing). The "distribution" (equivalent of distributed tarball, pre-bootstrapped) is also in schroot-dist.git: git remote add origin-dist git://anonscm.debian.org/buildd-tools/schroot-dist.git git fetch origin-dist git checkout distribution/schroot-1.6.1-1 This is directly buildable, and is bit-for-bit identical with the orig.tar.gz (which is generated from this with "git archive"). Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
