[Pkg-octave-devel] How do you build the package?

[Sébastien Villemot]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org> writes:

> I thought the whole point of keeping the package under git was to use
> git-buildpackage.
>
> However, after cloning the alioth repo and running "git-buildpackage", I get:
>
>     fatal: Not a valid object name upstream/3.4.3
>     octave_3.4.3.orig.tar.gz does not exist, creating from 'upstream'
>     fatal: Not a valid object name upstream
>
> How am I supposed to build the package?

I think this is because you did not create local branches for upstream
and pristine-tar. Do the following in your local repo:

 git branch upstream origin/upstream
 git branch pristine-tar origin/pristine-tar

I don't know if there is an automated way of doing this.

Also don't forget to use the --git-pristine-tar option of
git-buildpackage (you can put it in ~/.gbp.conf).

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Sébastien Villemot
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