Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 14:44 -0600 schrieb John Goerzen: >> Joachim Breitner wrote: >>> you could develop it all in one branch, but before running >>> dpkg-buildpackage run a script that does (untested code) >>> >>> UPSTREAM_VERSION=$(cat debian/changelog|some_grep_magic) >>> SOURCE_NAME=$(cat debian/control|some_grep_magic) >>> git archive --format=tar --prefix="$SOURCE_NAME-$UPSTREAM_VERSION" | \ >>> tar --file - --delete "$SOURCE_NAME-$UPSTREAM_VERSION/debian" | \ >>> gzip -9 > ../"$SOURCE_NAME_$UPSTREAM_VERSION".orig.tar.gz >>> >>> This will place a nicely named tarball in the directory above, where >>> dpkg-buildpackage will find it and the only differences it will find are >>> the debian/ directory... >>> >>> Does this sound viable? >> That's an interesting idea, and makes me wonder: >> >> perhaps I could just use the ./setup sdist output as the upstream >> tarball? It would make sense on a number of levels, I think. > > eh, right. I forgot that you are packaging cabal stuff :-)
Isn't just about everyone these days? ;-) > > Greetings, > Joachim > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
