[Pkg-voip-commits] r1372 - /

[Kilian Krause]

Author: kilian
Date: 2006-03-06 09:17:57 +0000 (Mon, 06 Mar 2006)
New Revision: 1372

Modified:
   README
Log:
some notes about get-orig-source and print-version


Modified: README
===================================================================
--- README	2006-03-05 22:41:36 UTC (rev 1371)
+++ README	2006-03-06 09:17:57 UTC (rev 1372)
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@
 directory committed. Consequently, you must use CDBS's simple-patchsys.mk or
 dpatch to modify the upstream sources.
 
+To download the *.orig.tar.gz to the ../tarballs directory, most of the
+pkg-voip packages have a "get-orig-source" target in their debian/rules.
+Further, there is a "print-version" target to see what is the current upstream
+version, that's detected for download. You can run the get-orig-source directly
+from trunk/ or tags/$version/.
+
 After you have finished and committed your Debian patches via
 	
 	% svn commit [PACKAGE]
@@ -67,10 +73,16 @@
 as well as copying the orig.tar.gz to ../tarballs/ if necessary, you may build
 your package with the following commands:
 
-	% svn-buildpackage --svn-ignore-new -rfakeroot
+	% svn-buildpackage -rfakeroot
 
-Please, don't commit tarballs/ or build-area/ directories to SVN.
+You might want to add --svn-ignore-new to the flags if you do not want to
+commit before having finished your testbuild. Further, if you use debuild and
+edited /etc/devscripts.conf to use fakeroot by default, there is no need to add
+this to svn-buildpackage.
 
+Don't commit tarballs/ or build-area/ directories to SVN! They would be wasting
+loads of bandwith and there is no point.
+
 4. Tarballs and Build-area directories
 --------------------------------------
 
@@ -78,9 +90,13 @@
 running svn-buildpackage. Usually this means placing tarballs/ and build-area/ dirs 
 in 'pkgname'/ dir, at the same level as trunk/
 
+For the existing projects these are preset as symlinks to a central hierarchy
+under the pkg-voip svn root. This is to faciliate the building of subsequent
+packages when having the full tree checked out.
+
 If you want to compile inside one version in tags/ dir, you'll need to place those
-dirs inside that dir. Of course the easiest and cleanest way of doing it is 
-by making a symlink of those dirs inside tags/ dir.
+dirs inside that dir. Also for most of the tags dirs there should be ready to
+use symlinks.
 
 5. Using svn-inject
 -------------------
@@ -95,3 +111,9 @@
 package.orig.tar.gz to your tarballs directory.  The -o option is important as 
 this ensures that we 'Only keep modified files under SVN control'
 
+-(snip)-
+
+In case any of the above is unclear to you or seems outdated, please drop us a note to the maintainers list.
+
+Your
+Debian pkg-VoIP packaging team