[Debian-olpc-devel] Converting from tar.bz2 to orig.tar.gz

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:46:10PM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote:
>Is there a standard way of converting an upstream tarball from tar.bz2 
>to orig.tar.gz? When I built some packages for Ubuntu and then later 
>synced from Debian, the tarballs were different, and I want to avoid 
>that happening again if possible.

You can either bzip2 and gzip by hand as Luke proposes, or use the 
get-orig-source routine provided in the upstream-source.mk CDBS snippet 
(which essentially does the same).

But what you really want is then to _remember_ the actual binary 
composition of that resulting gzipped tarball. Use pristine-tar for 
that, either by hand or pass the --git-pristine-tar option to 
git-buildpackage commands.


  - Jonas

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