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Re: state of freebsd-manpages



Hi again,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> Petr Salinger wrote:
> > So, please could some DD do the upload ?
> 
> Will do.

Done.

All changes committed at
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/glibc-bsd/trunk/freebsd-manpages/debian/

> > "get-orig-source" recipe seems to be:

I'll rename the previous update target to the more common name
get-orig-source.

> > apt-get install lftp
> > 
> > cd <glibc-bsd SVN>
> > svn up
> > cd freebsd-manpages
> > debian/rules update
> > mkdir freebsd-manpages-8.4
> > cp manpages.a* freebsd-manpages-8.4/
> > tar czvf ../freebsd-manpages_8.4.orig.tar.gz freebsd-manpages-8.4
> > rm -rf freebsd-manpages-8.4/
> > 
> > The rest is to edit debian/changelog and usual build.
> 
> I'll change that system a little bit. I always disliked
> freebsd-manpages' strange packaging

Done. Our orig.tar.gz is now the tar ball you get when you concatenate
what upstream distributes.

Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> On 05/08/13 19:07, Petr Salinger wrote:
> >   lftp -e 'mget manpages.a?;exit'
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/$(VER)-RELEASE/manpages/
> > 
> > does not work and "get-orig-source have to be rewritten".
> 
> It seems the manpages are distributed as part of the base.txz now, but
> downloading ~57 MiB seems wasteful, e.g.:
> 
> $ wget -O-
> 'http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/9.1-RELEASE/base.txz'
> | tar -Jxvf - ./usr/share/man

IMO that's nevertheless the way to go. Because...

> Is there any reason we don't get these from SVN like most other things?
> 
> $ svn export "http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/$(VER)/share/man/"

Petr Salinger wrote:
> And from other locations like libc/i386/sys/, libc/sys/, ...

... this would very tedious to gather the stuff from a likely ever
changing list of locations.

		Regards, Axel
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