On Sun, 03 Aug 2014, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | I would be delighted to share my very limited wisdom about > | git-buildpackage in hangout or any other media. where are you now? ( I > | am in EST (EDT to be more precise) time zone which is GMT-4 atm.
> I am in Chicago, so one time zone over. [ And I've been here since fall of > 2000. ] ha -- almost a neighbor ;) (although I have never been to Chicago yet) > But I don't regularly use debcheckout, and it isn't clear to me how it would > know where to go [oh, wait, VCS in debian/control, I guess -- never mind] > | > cat .gbp.conf # my customization so I build in clean exported env > | [git-buildpackage] > | sign-tags = True > | # use this for more svn-buildpackage like bahaviour: > | export-dir = ../build-area/ > | tarball-dir = ../tarballs/ > | debcheckout vowpal-wabbit > | cd vowpal-wabbit > | git checkout --track origin/debian # added now -b debian to Vcs field, so > will not be needed in the future > That was a related question. Say I cloned you debian/vw repo. How would I > track yours and the original upstream? Setting two remotes and merging by > hand? yeap -- as sophisticated as that hand operation ;) > | $> git-buildpackage --git-verbose --git-ignore-new -uc -us --git-tag > | ... > | gbp:debug: Looking for orig tarball 'vowpal-wabbit_7.6.orig.tar.gz' at > '../tarballs/' > | gbp:info: Orig tarball 'vowpal-wabbit_7.6.orig.tar.gz' not found at > '../tarballs/' > | gbp:debug: ['git', 'ls-tree', '7.6'] > | gbp:info: vowpal-wabbit_7.6.orig.tar.gz does not exist, creating from '7.6' > | gbp:debug: Building upstream tarball with compression 'gzip -9' > | because we fetched upstream tarball for 7.7, not 7.6, git-buildpackage then > | generates one for you from the upstream release tag. It similarly happy > | generates ones from the snapshots (e.g. if version like > | 0.14.0+git393-g959e3e4-1 carries the treeish) -- which comes really handy > for > | snapshot releases I do to test prior or after upstream releases. > | I guess that would be git-buildpackage 101 ;) > Thanks. Might still be useful to do quick parallel session over hangout to > get me going. Finding time may an issue -- was a little under the weather > and trying to catch. But me should do this. VW is way to cool :) actually -- myself I haven't yet appreciated it to that degree. So if you feel that some other packaging arrangement would be more convenient for you, and you would like to take of its maintenance -- I would not oppose. hangout -- some time on Wed may be if you like? -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
