> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> expr "`dpkg-parsechangelog`" : '.*Version: \(.*\).*\nDistribution:'
I can't get that to work. I have much better luck with `gawk'.
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Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Maybe you could do it once, in the "rules" file:
>
> export PKG_VERSION=$(shell dh_parseversion)
>
> ... and then use it from the environment.
I don't want the dh_* to be dependant on the particular debian/rules
they are in. They should be able to be added, singly, to
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> However, on second thought, using dpkg-parsechangelog is
Joey> unappetising. Not only does it print out this annoying error
Joey> message, but it takes a about a second to run. (on a p166)
Joey> Since debian/rules files t
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Well, I'm glad you wrote it the way you did. I've just begun to
> learn how shell scripts are written and that's the first time I'd
> encountered that use of `expr'. I learned from it.
Same here, I stole that bit from debstd. ;-)
However, on second thought, using dp
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>> Note that I use `dpkg-parsechangelog', rather than the simpler:
>>
>> LINE=$(head -1 changelog) VERSION=$(expr $LINE : '.* (\(.*\))')
>>
>> ... since I thought that the reason for using
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Note that I use `dpkg-parsechangelog', rather than the simpler:
>
> LINE=$(head -1 changelog)
> VERSION=$(expr $LINE : '.* (\(.*\))')
>
> ... since I thought that the reason for using `dpkg-parsechangelog'
> was so folks could experiment with alternative changelog for
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Karl> Also, to put a version string into a program, I use:
VERSION=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog 2>/dev/null \
| gawk -F: \
'$$1 ~ /Version/ {version = gensub(/^ */,"",g,$$2)} \
END {printf("%s_SPI", version) }')
Joey> I've
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> I find that if you put:
>
> .EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES:
>
> ... into debian/rules, the DH_VERBOSE=1 starts to function.
Thats unnecessary, you only need to export DH_VERBOSE. The example rules
files that come with debhelper do it this way:
#export DH_VERBOSE=1
> Also, t
I find that if you put:
.EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES:
... into debian/rules, the DH_VERBOSE=1 starts to function.
Also, to put a version string into a program, I use:
VERSION=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog 2>/dev/null
\
| gawk -F:
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