Hi .. On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:15:42AM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote: >> I have dropped the use of dbs from our packages and restructured the >> .orig.tar.gz tarball so that it is the same layout as upstream, instead of >> the tarball-within-a-tarball that we had before. The debian directory stays >> as before, except that debian/patches is no longer used. The Ximian >> ooo-build tree is placed at the same level as the debian directory. >> >> This is how to get the new layout from CVS: >> >> download the tarball and unpack it: >> http://people.debian.org/~halls/openoffice/1.1rc3/openoffice.org_1.0.99+1.1rc3.orig.tar.gz >> (this tarball is zipped using gzip --rsyncable, so you can use rsync to >> reduce the download time for future tarballs :) >That's a really good idea, the rsync part. OOo is really huge. >Could you detail how to do it exactly? > >> check out oo-deb/debian from our CVS as usual. You need the latest HEAD >> revision. Have a look at debian/changelog: I documented most of the >> changes in there already, although I haven't included all the new patches >> from Ximian yet. >> >> Then, you need the Ximian CVS tree. I scripted a build rule to make it >> easier: >> >> cd openoffice.org-1.0.99+1.1rc3 >> debian/rules get-ooo-build >I already have a problem (I solved it on my side without trouble, but I >think I should let you know too): the cvs version on Woody doesn't >recognize the "-z #" option. My problem is, that dpkg-source finished with an "unrepresentable change on the source" error. I think, that comes from the ximian part.... Anyone seen this? Any hints to fix it? Regards Jan -- .''`. Jan-Hendrik Palic | : :' : ** Debian GNU/ Linux ** | ** OpenOffice.org ** ,.. ,.. `. `' http://www.debian.org | http://www.openoffice.org ,: ..` ` `- jan.palic@linux-debian.de | ' ` `
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