Re: Maintaining personal backports

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:02:02AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote:
> > I was also thinking about an automated dch to increase the version to
> > something like ${VER}~mybpo1, or some such thing. I leave it to you to
> > suggest some sane method my which this can be achieved.
> >
> using ~ decreases the version.
> 
> Try this:
> dpkg-source -x  dscfile
> pushd $src-$ver
> dch -l mybpo
> dpkg-buildpackage -S (It's rare, but sometimes you may need a builddep 
> installed for this, such as po4a).
> popd
> dupload $src-$newver_source.changes
> cowbuilder $src-$newver.dsc (use -B for DEBBUILDOPTS in pbuilderrc)

Right. I can adapt something like this to my workflow.

Thanks.

Kumar