Archive for November 22, 2009

Switched to GIT

Nov 22nd

Posted by Julien in Weblog

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After having converted my packages to the new 3.0 (quilt) source format, I have decided to move everything to GIT.

rkhunter was moved to Alioth’s collab-maint project, and I have set up a personal GIT repository for the other packages.

This page on the wiki has helped a lot.

I now need to learn how to use this tool, but my first tests are very encouraging.
I haven’t had to change my packaging workflow, switching from svn-buildpackage to git-buildpackage.

I am even able to build i386 packages on my amd64 machine as before without the need to change anything in my ~/.pbuilderrc.

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Converted my packages to 3.0 (quilt) source format

Nov 22nd

Posted by Julien in Weblog

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I have now finished converted most of the packages I maintain (part of the official archive or not) to the new 3.0 (quilt) source format.

I first had to switch from dpatch or cdbs’ simple-patchsys to quilt, which was easy thanks to Romain Francoise’s old blog post.

Also note this quick adaptation for cdbs:

for i in $(ls debian/patches/*.patch); do \
    I=$(basename $i | sed 's/.patch$//'); \
    quilt import -P $I.diff $i; \
done

The rest was much easier than what I thought, thanks to the related page on the wiki.

I have already tried uploading a package to my personal repository, and reprepro just worked as expected.

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