On Mon, 03 Dec 2001, Duncan Findlay wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:56:57PM -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote: > > Yes, I would like to know of an easy way to release frequent (weekly, > > quarterly, monthly) Debian packages of CVS snapshots of certain > > software like lopster and licq.
I use cvs-buildpackage, and a small script that exports from upstream CVS into a "upstream" .orig.tar.gz tarball. The versioning is used to place the "upstream" .orig tarball in time, and I send diffs upstream as if we both were not using CVS. The best examples of this I have right now are the Cyrus 2.1.0pre packages in p.d.o/~hmh/cyrus2 This is about the same amount of work as using dbs, I think. > My AM suggested that it is really quite easy to merely apply the debian > directory to a cvs export rather that using the ever-so-complicated (and > "evil") dbs. That might work, too... but it IS prone to failure, if upstream changes anything under your feet. > Supposedly (I'm maybe wrong here) dbs does not give a clean .orig.tar.gz > (which is a bad thing) Well, there isn't a clean .orig.tar.gz when dealing with versions from CVS anyway. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
