On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:16:40AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/28/2013 04:43 AM, andrea rota wrote: > > good point. i was starting directly from upstream's git, but have now > > updated the workflow to use both upstream git *and* pristine-tar as per > > http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2013-04/001.html - tried on a fresh > > sid install and this now builds correctly for me there. > > If you use upstream Git, then I would suggest to use tags, and declare > that in the debian/gbp.conf, plus provide a way in debian/rules to > generate upstream tarball (I use "./debian/rules gen-orig-xz" in my > pcakges). thanks - this is very useful. in my local tests, i see that the upstream tarball is generated by git-buildpackage, but this is part of the whole build process and i couldn't find out how to just generate the upstream tarball. i had a look at some of your packages but couldn't find one with an example of tag-based upstream generation via task in debian/rules: could you point me to one i can use as an example? thanks, andrea -- andrea rota Xelera - IT infrastructures http://xelera.eu/contact-us/
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