Re: Could a Lenny upgrade break GnuCash 2.2.6-2?
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 23:02 -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
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> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
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> > Yes, indeed it breaks. We learned that the hard way. We repackaged it
> > using the newer source. I do not know how we submit such repacking for
> > backports but here are the steps we took to make it happen (edited to
> > protect internal information:
<snip>
> > Return to the user console
> > cd /download/gnucash
> > wget http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-2.2.9.tar.bz2
> > tar jfvx gnucash-2.2.9.tar.bz2
> > mv gnucash{-,_}2.2.9.tar.bz2
> > mv gnucash_2.2.9{,.orig}.tar.bz2 - This is the name format debuild will expect
>
> With your amended instructions I got as far as here, but the following
> command confuses me.
>
> > cd gnucash-2.2.9
>
> As this directory does not exist it is impossible to change to it.
It has been a while since I've done this but, after you untar the
gnucash-2.2.9.tar.bz2, don't you have a gnucash-2.2.9 directory into
which we are now going to copy the debian folder from 2.2.6 so we can
build it into a Debian package?
> Do
> you mean cd ../gnucash-2.2.6, since the directory I am in at this point
> is /download/gnucash, or do you want a new directory guncash-2.2.9 to be
> created somewhere? If the former, it seems to me that there is an
> extra ../ and an extra gnucash-2.2.6 -- two of each rather than one. If
> the object of the exercise is to create gnucash-2.2.6, shouldn't the
> directories now be so named?
>
> > cp -r ../../gnucash-2.2.6/gnucash-2.2.6/debian ./
> > cd debian
> > The changelog is more than information; it is critical for debuild processing.
> > Add something similar to the following at the top (the syntax is very fussy)
> > gnucash (2.2.9-0) stable; urgency=high
> > * 2.2.6 segfaults with libglib from lenny-backports
> > -- John Sullivan <myname@mycompany.com> Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:18:00 -0500
> > Edit the control file and edit the two Replaces lines so they read:
> > Replaces: gnucash-common (<< 2.2.6-3)
> > Replaces: gnucash (<< 2.2.6-3)
> > Edit the files file so it reads:
> > gnucash-common_2.2.9-0_all.deb gnome optional
> > gnucash_2.2.9-0_amd64.deb gnome optional
> > debuild will complain about the -0 but I do not want to give it -1 in case the real 2.2.9 package is -1 when it is released.
> > cd ..
> > debuild -us -uc
> > cd ..
> > The two .deb files should be in this directory and can be installed where needed
>
> > Any corrections to the process are welcome as I am by no means an
> > expert. Hope this helps - John
>
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