![]() | ![]() | Building Debian Packages with git-buildpackage: Version: 0.4.10 | ![]() |
---|
In order to build a Debian package from the Git repository you use: git-buildpackage. During the development phase (when you're either not on the debian-branch or when you have uncommitted changes in your repository) you'll usually use:
git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new
If git-buildpackage doesn't find a valid upstream tarball it will create
one by looking at the tag matching the upstream version, if no tag can be
found it uses the tip of the current upstream-branch
. Any
other treeish objecto to create the upstream tarball from can be given with
the --upstream-branch
option.
Once you're satisfied with the build and want to do a relese you commit all your changes and issue:
git-buildpackage --git-tag
This will again build the debian package and tag the final result after
extracting the current version from the changelog. If you want GPG signed
tags you can use the --git-sign
and
--git-keyid
options. To safe typing these option can be
specified via the configuration files. You can futhermore change the tag
format used when creating tags with the debian-tag
option.
Tools like svn-buildpackage use a separate build-area. To achieve a similar behaviour
with git-buildpackage use the --export-dir
option:
git-buildpackage --export-dir
=../build-area/
This will export the current branch head to
../build-area/package-version, check out the corresponding
upstream tree to build the .orig.tar.gz if necessary and build the
package. If you don't want to export the current branch head you can use
--export
to export any treeish object, here are some
examples:
git-buildpackage--export-dir
=../build-area--export
=debian/0.4.3 git-buildpackage--export-dir
=../build-area--export
=etch git-buildpackage--export-dir
=../build-area--export
=8caed309653d69b7ab440e3d35abc090eb4c6697
If you want to default to build in a separate build area you can specify the directory to use in the gbp.conf.
[git-buildpackage] # use a build area relative to the git repository build-area=../build-area # to use the same build area for all packages use an absolute path: #build-area=/home/debian-packages/build-area
<<< Importing Sources | Releases and Snapshots >>> |