Kees Leune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:59:29 -0500, William Ballard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:23:06AM -0300, Lucas Wall wrote: >> > - make dist >> > - copy the tar.gz to a temp dir with the appropiate .orig Debian name. >> > - unpack the tar.gz and copy the debian dir into it. >> > - let dpkg-buildpackage (or similar) compile and generate the diff file, >> > etc. >> >> Well, that's a bit of magic. If you are in a directory foo-x.y, and run >> dpkg-buildpackage, it makes a "native" package. If you simply have a >> foo-x.y.orig sibling directory, it makes a "non-native" package (and >> concidentally removes the .orig directory). That's wierd. > > I generally do it a little different. Say my upstream has a new > package out which is called foo-1.0.tar.gz. I generally copy it to the > file foo_1.0.orig.tar.gz and then untar it. Make sure it untars in a > directly that follows the packagename-version convention(e.g. > foo-1.0).
That is not even necessary. If the files from foo-1.2.3.tar.gz unpack into foo/ (or foo-1.2-3-is-great/), it is sufficient to rename the tarball to foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz, and your working directory (with the debian stuff) to foo-1.2.3/. When you run dpkg-buildpackage, it will call dpkg-source -b to generate the diff.gz, and this command will do the following: - create a temporary directory $tmpdir and unpack foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz in $tmpdir - check whether this resulted in more than one file in $tmpdir (which wouldn't be the case in this example); if yes, rename $tmpdir to foo-1.2.3.orig/ - rename $tmpdir/foo/ to $tmpdir/foo-1.2.3.orig - run "diff -Nur $tmpdir/foo-1.2.3.orig foo-1.2.3" (or diff -Nur foo-1.2.3.orig foo-1.2.3" in the hypothetical case) > Also, make sure > that your debian/changelog contains a version number like 1.0-1, > rather than just 1.0. The version number represents upstream version > 1.0, Debian package version 1. Does the non-existence of a Debian revision result in native packaging? I thought it just results in a lintian/linda complain and a bug report? Regards, Frank -- Frank K�ster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z�rich Debian Developer
