Re: Packaging CVS snapshots?
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:56:57PM -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:15:49PM +0100, Amaya wrote:
> > Carlos Laviola dijo:
> > > Some folks at #debian-devel suggested me to use dbs,
> >
> > Sorry, what do you exactly mean by dbs?
>
> The 'dbs' package :-)
>
> > > Can anyone give me some clues, or could anyone that does/has done this
> > > give me a hand?
> >
> > What is exactly what you are having trouble with?
> > Automating? Dealing with CVS stuff?
>
> Yes, I would like to know of an easy way to release frequent (weekly,
> quarterly, monthly) Debian packages of CVS snapshots of certain
> software like lopster and licq.
>
My AM suggested that it is really quite easy to merely apply the debian
directory to a cvs export rather that using the ever-so-complicated (and
"evil") dbs.
Supposedly (I'm maybe wrong here) dbs does not give a clean .orig.tar.gz
(which is a bad thing)
--
Duncan Findlay
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