Re: Status of ITK 4.8 packaging
On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 17:45 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On July 21, 2015 04:46:40 PM Paul Novotny wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-07-20 at 11:34 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > > 1. Upstream now separates the test data from the source tarball.
> > > I
> > > would like
> > > to keep the tests so I planned to use the "multiple orig tarball"
> > > feature. I
> > > believe I've done it before with ITK but last week "svn
> > > buildpackage"
> > > failed
> > > me. Need to figure this out.
> >
> > I can help with this. Do you have a branch that you used to try
> > this
> > out? I do not know anything about "multiple orig tarball", but saw
> > this
> > blog post:
> >
> > https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/07/how-to-use-multiple-upstream
> > -tarballs-in-debian-source-packages/
>
> Yep, that's the one.
>
> The trouble I had appears to be related to the leading dot in the
> directory
> name! I had tried naming the data tarball as
> insighttoolkit4_4.8.0.orig-.ExternalData.tar.xz (notice "." after
> "orig-")
> because I wanted it unpacked into ".ExternalData". But "debuild -S"
> just
> ignored it. When I removed the dot, it works!
>
> So after naming it insighttoolkit4_4.8.0.orig-ExternalData.tar.xz, I
> have the
> multi-tarball source working. However, that puts the data into
> "<topdir>/ExternalData/.ExternalData",which is not where the build
> looks by
> default. So I also set the ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES you pointed
> out
> (thanks!). Now it builds.
>
> > And looked at libcgi-application-perl, which has multiple tarballs.
> > They seam to have created an debian/update.sh, that looks at
> > multiple
> > watch files (in debian/components). Is this something along the
> > lines
> > of what you were thinking?
>
> I hadn't considered that, but it sounds like a good idea.
Hah, I just got it to work on my end too (I did data/.ExternalData/). I
was waiting for a build before committing it. Man these builds take
forever these days. I also added the update.sh and extra watch file,
should I commit it?
-Paul
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