Re: changes to release.sh
Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> After talking to Richard (aka dark, aka Release Manager) he pointed out
> that the current boot-floppies setup does not include an Architecture
> field in the .changes with arch only uploads. I figured this was due to
> the names of the files (the byhand arch files) not being parsed by
> dpkg-genchanges as arch specific. Also I got tired of (and Richard didn't
> like it much either :) having to change the names of the bf-* files that
> are output for upload to be able to unpack them (the script looks for
> different names that that of the files).
I did it that way because I thought dinstall automatically munged the
file names. I guess that's not the case on ByHand entries, but
multiple queries to ftpmaster had led to no response.
> So, now release.sh creates the files as bf-*_<pkgver>_<arch>.tar.gz (this
> includes the bf-archive-install_<pkgver>_<arch>.sh script). And those
> names are in the install script. No more renaming the files, and also the
> .changes has the arch field.
Cool.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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