Packaging on Bob

This page documents how to use git buildpackage to build packages local and on the server.

Quick recipe (only builds on the server)

• install git-buildpackage first
• export PACKAGE=package
• you have the dsc files on your local machine? Do:
  • mkdir $PACKAGE
  • cd $PACKAGE
  • copy the dsc file and all referenced files here
  • git-import-dsc ${PACKAGE}*dsc
• ask the administrator to put your public ssh key on bob the build server
• ssh builder@130.75.116.103 "cd /srv/packaging/git;./make-git $PACKAGE"
• git remote add origin git+ssh://builder@130.75.116.103/srv/packaging/git/$PACKAGE
• git push origin master
• git push origin upstream

On Bob the building process runs in a screen with the name package.

• screen -ls
• screen -r package

The results can be found in /srv/packaging/=dist=_=arch=/result/.

Additionally, STDOUT goes into /srv/packaging/git/log/package/out. Each time you think you could build a new package on BOB, do a git commit -a and a "git push". A post-receive hook starts the installation.

The etch packages get an additional "~bp" on the versions number attach to enable backporting.

Use git-buildpackage also on your local machine

Using dpkg-buildpackage

• do dpkg-buildpackage

This is not recommended since some hidden dependencies might be resolved by you local system but not on other system. E.g., your package might be installed on a minimal system but will not work.

Using pbuilder

• edit the ~/.pbuilderrc on your local machine and fill it with live
• do pbuilder --create
• without a config you can pass proper arguments to pbuilder, e.g.,

pbuilder --create --distribution $dist --debootstrapopts "--arch=$arch"  \
 --basetgz "$home/$dist_arch/$base" --mirror "http://10.20.10.30/$dist"

• do a pbuilder build package.dsc

The ~/.pbuilderrc:

LOCALPATH="set_the_pbuilder_path_here"
BASETGZ=$LOCALPATH/base_tgz_of_your_chroot.tgzBUILDPLACE=$LOCALPATH/build/
MIRRORSITE=http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/
OTHERMIRROR="deb file://$LOCALPATH/result/ ./"
USEPROC=yes
USEDEVPTS=yes
USEDEVFS=no
BUILDRESULT=$LOCALPATH/result/
DISTRIBUTION=your_dist
APTCACHE="$LOCALPATH/cache/"
APTCACHEHARDLINK="yes"
REMOVEPACKAGES="lilo"
HOOKDIR="$LOCALPATH/hooks/"
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive"
DEBEMAIL=""
BUILDSOURCEROOTCMD="fakeroot"
PBUILDERROOTCMD="sudo"
PBUILDERSATISFYDEPENDSCMD="/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends"
DEBBUILDOPTS=""
APTCONFDIR=""
BUILDUSERID=builders_uid
BUILDUSERNAME=builders_nmae
BINDMOUNTS="$LOCALPATH/result/"
unset DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS
export PATH="/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
export SHELL=/bin/bash
DEBOOTSTRAP="cdebootstrap"
PKGNAME_LOGFILE_EXTENTION="_$(dpkg --print-architecture).build"

Do not forget to set the right

LOCALPAHT

git-buildpackage

see

 *git-buildpackage* --git-ignore-new

and

 *git-buildpackage* --git-tag

git-buildpackage + pbuilder

This is done on BOB.

• Write a script outside of your maintenance directory.

export $PATH_TO=some_path
cat <<EOF >$PATH_TO/git-pbuilder
#!/bin/sh
# pass commandline arguments to dpkg-buildpackage
pdebuild --debbuildopts "-i\.git -I.git $*"
EOF
chmod a+x $PATH_TO/git-pbuilder

• start the build process with

git-buildpackage --git-builder=$PATH_TO/git-pbuilder  --git-cleaner="fakeroot debian/rules clean"

links

• Release procedure