Re: git-buildpackage: can it recreate the orig.tar.gz without the pristine-tar?
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 13:44:55 +0100
Miguel Telleria de Esteban <miguel@mtelleria.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> After several months of using git-buildpackage with the "recommended"
> pristine-tar option I still keep making myself the following question.
>
> Why does git-buildpackage need pristine-tar to generate the orig.tar.gz
> file?. Can't it just pick the contents from the upstream branch
> together with version number from debian/changelog and regenerate the
> orig.tar.gz from it?
>
In my limited experience if the upstream project uses git already and
_tags_ stable releases it is very easy to avoid using pristine-tar, I
do that when I package my own projects; actually I have never had to
learn how to use pristine-tar...
My repositories have this layout:
- "master" branch is the upstream code base (or a clone of the
upstream repository) with tags marking stable releases, e.g. in the
form of v1.0 or v3.2.1
- "debian" branch is where the packaging stuff gets added (basically
the debian/ dir), this one branches off (and merges with) tagged
stable releases in the "master" branch.
- in debian/gbp.conf there are just these lines:
[DEFAULT]
debian-branch = debian
upstream-branch = master
upstream-tag = v%(version)s
By just running "git buildpackage" the package builds fine, and
the .orig.tar.gz generated gets generated.
In _my_ case having the "upstream-tag" reflect the format of the tags
marking stable release in the "upstream-branch" branch was the key to
make git-buildpackage generate the .orig.tar.gz archives.
Regards,
Antonio
> To see if pristine-tar is absolutely needed for this I have done
> different attemps with the following workflow:
>
> 1. Set pristine-tar to False in gbp.conf (previously was set to true)
>
> 2. git-import-orig a .orig.tar.gz file present somewhere outside the
> working directory.
>
> Everything seems fine:
> - upstream tag generated
> - orig.tar.gz content present in upstream branch
> - this same content merged in debian (working) branch
> - NO new content in pristine-tar.
>
> 3. Issue git-dch and ensure debian/changelog has the correct upstream
> version (matching upstream/nnn tag)
>
> 4. Commit debian/changelog
>
> 5. Run git-builpackage several times trying the following options:
> --git-force-create
> --git-upstream-tree=upstream/<tag-version>
>
> RESULT:
>
> the orig.tar.gz does not get created in the build area and therefore
> dpkg-source complains of not finding it.
>
> EXPECTED RESULT (that I can reproduce manually)
> - checkout temporarily the upstream branch
> - generate an .orig.tar.gz from it and move it to the build-area
> - checkout again the debian branch
> - proceed as normal
>
> and it works !!
>
> so why does not git-buildpackage do this?
>
--
Antonio Ospite
http://ao2.it
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
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