Re: how do I create orig.tar.gz archive ?
Ionutz Borcoman wrote:
> The original archive is vdk_0_5_1.tar.gz with a top directory VDK-0.5.1.
>
> The current version of vdk is a developement version and I've decided to
> call it: vdk-0.5.1-19990122 (using the release day of the library).
> Building the package, I get a tar.gz called vdk-0.5.1.orig.tar.gz. The
> top directory of this archive is vdk-0.5.1-19990122.
>
> Question:
> how do I force dpkg-build to create a vdk_0_5_1.orig.tar.gz with a top
> directory VDK-0.5.1 ?
Why call it vdk_0_5_1.orig.tar.gz ?
Maybe I'm out to lunch here. Here's what I do with packages and
seems to me it works:
$ mv vdk_0_5_1.tar.gz vdk_0.5.1-19990122.orig.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf vdk_0.5.1-19990122.orig.tar.gz
$ cd VDK-0.5.1
$ deb-make (or whatever; insert your debian directory)
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
As I recall, if the debian/changelog file has the version number
indicated as 0.5.1-19990122, then dpkg-buildpackage will detect
that vdk_0.5.1-19990122.orig.tar.gz already exists and will use
it without recreating one. The fact is the tar ball unpacks into
something other than vdk-0.5.1-19990122 is not important as long
as it unpacks into a single directory.
A more experienced developer may correct me. I usually _ask_
questions on this list!
Peter <psg@debian.org>
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