Re: debian native and CVS
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:30:21PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> > Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > What is the best way to handle native Debian packages under CVS?
> > > The problem is to avoid the CVS directories going in the tarball.
> >
> > I think "-ICVS" passed to dpkg-buildpackage does the trick. See the
> > man page of dpkg-source for details.
>
> No, this will remove the CVS dirs from the diff, but there are no diffs
> since this a native package.
You've got it the wrong way round there: -i filters diffs, -I filters
tars.
> I comtemplated switching to non-native for that reason but having to
> pass -iCVS to each source build is not convenient and error prone.
If you're using debuild, then set the DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS
variable in ~/.devscripts to whatever set of options you usually pass.
Mine ends with "-ICVS -I.svn -uc -us".
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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