Re: lenny release goals and the tetex->texlive transition
On Don, 14 Dez 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Yup. This probably means doing some NMU, as there are packages with bugs
> > open since some time and no reaction, although there have been new
> > versions on a regular basis (ipe, I even prepared a new source package,
> > texmacs, ..)
>
> Hm, I'm not sure we can NMU packages targetted at etch. It's not a RC
> bug to not support TeXlive. Maybe we should instead provide empty
> "tetex" packages prepared with equivs for etch users, somewhere on
> tug.org?
Can be done, easily.
> I think in tetex it just means to pass --enable-shared to configure, and
> maybe some tweaks in the install targets. I don't think it would be
> hard with texlive. But still, a separate package has its merits.
Might be, never tried.
> > Hmm, of course it needs better description, but I think the README
> > already describes quite good how to make a source package.
>
> No, not really - I always need to do trial-and-error if the last
> tpm2deb.pl invocation is no longer in the bash history. The needed
> options are not documented (I think it's --master and --oldsource), and
Hmm, ever taken a look into README ;-)
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5) How to build the source packages
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..
If you build a package with debian revision > 1, ie you do not generate
a new orig.tar.gz file, than you have to have the .orig.tar.gz somewhere,
lets say in $OLD.
If you build a package with debian revision <= 1, ie you wnat to generate
a new orig.tar.gz file, than you have to have the TeX live 2005 Master
tree somewhere, lets say in $MASTER.
If you want to build a single source package, say texlive-base, call
perl tpm2deb.pl make-deb-source \
--oldsource=$OLD --master=$MASTER \
texlive-base
If you want to build *all* source packages (as defined in tpm2deb.cfg), then
perl tpm2deb.pl make-deb-source \
--oldsource=$OLD --master=$MASTER \
all
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This seems rather clear. I will add a comment that IF you do NOT build
new orig.tar.gz, and you have
./old the orig.tar.gz
then it is enough to call
perl tpm2deb.pl make-deb-source texlive-bin
which seems quite reasonable.
I added to the TOP of the README the following:
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QUICK HOWTO TO BUILD A SOURCE PACKAGE
. Do NOT create a new .orig.tar.gz, ie only make a new Debian revision,
or read the whole text
. Put the .orig.tar.gz into ./old/
. edit whatever you have to change, don't forget to change
./addons-per-source/$sourcepackage.changelog (it is the debian changelog
and defines the version number!)
. call
perl ./tpm2deb.pl make-deb-source $sourcepackage
where $sourcepackage is one of texlive-{bin,base,extra,doc,lang} or 'all'
After this you should have a normal Debian source package
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> the targets aren't described clearly, too (what is the make_deb target
> for? It simply does nothing IIRC).
rules.in:
...
perl debian/tpm2deb.pl --nosource --master=. make-deb $(PACKAGES)
It does something, namely all the installation work, maintainer scripts
etc. It is *the workhorse* of the script!!!
Best wishes
Norbert
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Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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