On Friday, July 15 2016, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Hi,
Hey,
> I want to create a watch file for a package that contains a single text
> file (which itself has the version into it):
> version=3
> http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/IAGA/vmod/igrf.html igrf(\d+)coeffs.txt \
> debian debian/repackage.sh
>
> The "repackage.sh" script would then just create a tarball:
> #!/bin/sh
> set -e
>
> VERSION=$2
> BASEDIR=$(dirname $3)
>
> cd $BASEDIR
> tar cf igrf-coefficients_$VERSION.orig.tar igrf${VERSION}coeffs.txt
> rm -f igrf${VERSION}coeffs.txt
> xz igrf-coefficients_$VERSION.orig.tar
> exec uupdate --no-symlink --upstream-version ${VERSION} igrf_${VERSION}.orig.tar.xz
>
> However, when I run this, uscan complaints:
> $ uscan
> uscan: Newest version of igrf-coefficients on remote site is 12, local version is 10
> uscan: => Newer package available from
> http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/IAGA/vmod/igrf12coeffs.txt
> Parameter ../igrf12coeffs.txt does not look like a tar archive or a zip file. at /usr/bin/mk-origtargz line 375.
> uscan: error: mk-origtargz --package igrf-coefficients --version 12 --compression gzip --directory .. --copyright-file debian/copyright ../igrf12coeffs.txt gave error exit status 255
>
> --debug does not show more here.
> What is wrong here? I thought that mk-orig.tar.gz should be called only
> when it is a tar archive?
Yeah, uscan is the responsible for invoking mk-origtargz. That can be a
problem indeed for cases like yours.
Here's a hacky solution. First, in order to avoid calling mk-origtargz
you need to pass the --no-symlink option to uscan (or set the
USCAN_SYMLINK environment variable to "no"). That is unfortunately the
only way, and there is also no opts available that you can use inside
the watch file.
Also, I found a few problems with your repackaging script. uupdate will
expect a certain pattern when decompressing it, like a directory named
package-version/, so you need to create that as well. Attached on this
message is an updated script that seems to work (as far as I have
tested; I don't have the full package here).
Another option would be to create a redirector like the one we have for
PyPi, but that demands a bit more work I suppose.
Cheers,
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#!/bin/sh
set -e
VERSION=$2
OLDDIR=$PWD
BASEDIR=$PWD/../
cd $BASEDIR
mkdir igrf-coefficients-${VERSION}/
mv igrf${VERSION}coeffs.txt igrf-coefficients-${VERSION}/
tar cf igrf-coefficients_$VERSION.orig.tar igrf-coefficients-${VERSION}/
rm -rf igrf-coefficients-${VERSION}/
xz igrf-coefficients_$VERSION.orig.tar
cd $OLDDIR
exec uupdate --no-symlink --upstream-version ${VERSION} $BASEDIR/igrf-coefficients_$VERSION.orig.tar.xz
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