Re: upstream source is a source rpm!
Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Goswin von Brederlow
> <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
>> Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Paul,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Paul Elliott
>>> <pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com> wrote:
>>>> I can unpack this thingy with:
>>>> rpm2cpio source.rpm | cpio -i
>>>>
>>>> But I have questions:
>>>>
>>>> Assuming I have the url of the source rpm, how would one write the watch file
>>>> and get-orig-source: in rules to create a proper .ds tarball?
>>>
>>> watch file should be easy to write: this is just a regex and it should
>>> not care about the file extension. What you need to do is something
>>> like this:
>>>
>>> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-java/trunk/fop/debian/watch?view=markup
>>>
>>> See how watch files are flexible ? Just provide an orig-tar.sh script
>>> yourself (using rpm2cpio for example)
>>>
>>>> Do I need to put rpm2cpio and cpio in Build-depends: ? Do I need to note this
>>>> dependancy anywhere?
>>>
>>> No. You should repack the source using .xy, .gz, .bz2 only in your
>>> orig-tar.sh script. Make sure to exit with an error in orig-tar.sh
>>> when rpmcpio is not present, and you should be ready to roll.
>>
>> I always hate when you patch a source or update the upstream part and
>> suddenly things break because some tools are missing.
>>
>> I know they don't fall under Build-Depends and buildds should not need
>> to install them. But maybe there could be a new Build-Depends-Extras
>> field for things like this?
>
> That seems terribly complicated instead of adding another compression
> backend to uscan. uscan properly support repacking .zip into .tgz.
> I have seen java package distributing source files in a .jar file :)
I ment that for the general case. In your case you would need rpm2cpio.
Others need svn, mercurial or git. Autotools files need autoheader,
libtool, automake for any changes. Ocaml packages can need oasis if you
change the _oasis file. And so on.
MfG
Goswin
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