Re: VistA packaging : vista-foia : First review

Andreas,

Here is the second attempt. :-)

New Git Repository

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After reading more carefully the instructions in:

https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/development/debian_packages_in_git/

https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit

I have restructured the Git repository from scratch.

It is now at:

git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/vista-foia.git

Browse Link:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-med/vista-foia.git

Build Process

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The following commands, work for me to replicate the build in a fresh directory:

git clone git://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/vista-foia.git

cd vista-foia

git archive --format tar.gz --output=../vista-foia_0.20130405-1.debian.tar.gz master debian

git archive --format tar.gz --output=../vista-foia_0.20130405.orig.tar.gz upstream

git-buildpackage

It's main dependency is the fis-gtm package.

The cloned Git repository takes 3.3 Gb in disk.

Once the build concludes, I can do:

cd ..

and get to see the following files:

vista-foia-0.20130405_0.20130405-1_amd64.deb

vista-foia_0.20130405-1_all.deb

vista-foia_0.20130405-1_amd64.build

vista-foia_0.20130405-1_amd64.changes

vista-foia_0.20130405-1.debian.tar.gz

vista-foia_0.20130405-1.dsc

vista-foia_0.20130405.orig.tar.gz

and at that level, I can install the package with:

sudo dpkg -i vista-foia-0.20130405_0.20130405-1_amd64.deb

and the meta-package with:

sudo dpkg -i vista-foia_0.20130405-1_all.deb

This installs vista-foia in the directory

/usr/share/vista-foia/V-0.20130405/

The bulk of the package is in the "r" routines directory:

/usr/share/vista-foia/V-0.20130405/r

that contains 27543 MUMPS files

and the "globals" directory, that host the basic database:

/usr/share/vista-foia/V-0.20130405/g

with files

1.2G database.dat

1.5K database.gld

Pristine Tar:

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When building the repository, I first attempted to import the source

tarball with the --pristine-tar option, as recommended here:

https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit#pristine-tar

but got the following error message:

gbp:info: No git repository found, creating one.

gbp:info: Tag upstream/0.20130405 not found, importing Upstream tarball

xdelta: warning: no matches found in from file, patch will apply without it

error: excessively large binary delta for /tmp/pristine-tar.ETnVfcsL8q/origtarball

(Please consider filing a bug report.)

pristine-tar: failed to generate delta

gbp:error: Couldn't commit to 'pristine-tar' with upstream 'upstream': /usr/bin/pristine-tar returned 1

The VistA-M tarball is 407Mb. This is probably the reason.

So, fell back to importing with the simpler command:

gbp import-dsc vista-foia_0.20130405-1.dsc

This was done, starting from a pre-built package,

as recommended here:

https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit#Getting_started

So, the repository currently doesn't have a "pristine-tar" branch.

The upstream sources are in the "upstream" branch,

and it is the composition of the source tree from the

VistA repository:

https://github.com/OSEHRA/VistA

that contains CMake + Python insfrastructure,

and the Vista-M repository:

https://github.com/OSEHRA/VistA-M

that contains the actual MUMPS source routines and globals

of VistA proper.

Version Number

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Following your comments, I simplified the version number to just use

vista-foia 0.20130405

As you pointed out, the VistA-M source tree is much bigger than the

CMake+Python infrastructure in the VistA source tree. So using the

version number of the biggest tree, makes sense.

I'll be very curious to hear if the build of this restructured tree can

be replicated.

Tagging

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I'm now looking into tagging the upstream branch, which seems to be

needed for git-buildpackage to work out of the box, without requiring

that we manually create the tar.gz source files from the upstream branch.

(... advice will be welcome here....).

Follow Up Question

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Should I delete at some point the "vista" Git repository in Alioth ?

Now that this is in the "vista-foia" git repository that actually

matches the package name.

I have not come across a process for removing Git repositories

from Alioth. ( I would suspect that there is a web page that I should

read before attempting such thing). Any guidance on what to do

about it will be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Luis