Re: building pkg-gnome from scratch
On 4/28/05, Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 27 avril 2005 à 22:52 -0400, Luis M a écrit :
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I don't seem to find a step-by-step tutorial or any information
> > whatsoever, on how to build pkg-gnome from source by using the
> > pkg-gnome svn repo. I simply want to backport things to Sarge and not
> > use experimental or unstable for anything (hoping for the best of
> > course).
> >
> > Can anybody point me in the right direction?
>
> /usr/share/doc/gnome-pkg-tools/README.Debian.gz
Thanks for your reply.
However, I have already read this many times. This is a very outdated
document (svn-devscripts doesn't exist any more). I guess it's fine
for you guys who have been involved from the beginning, but for us
mere mortals, it just doesn't work. (or I'm just too dumb or
something).
I was hoping for a more straight forward approach:
1. cd path/to/foo
2. mkdir ../tarballs
3. wget http://gnome.org/path/to/foo.tar.gz
4. mv foo.tar.gz ../tarballs/foo.orig.tar.gz
5. svn-buildpackage --svn-ignore-new -rfakeroot -uc -us
I have tried reading the source of svn-buildpackage and the .svn meta
data to no avail. I'd hate to switch to Ubuntu just to get gnome2.10,
and installing gnome2.10 from experimental is overkill.
What about doing what others have suggested, mirror all the gnome2.10
packages in alioth (away from experimental stuff in debian.org main
repo)? That could solve a problem for the rest of us.
Thanks in advanced for your time.
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