Building an installable Debian / Ubuntu package from scratch in master.

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:36:51 -0700, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
> wrote:
>
>> So for various reasons (too complex to go into :-) at
>> the Redmond plugfest I'd like to create a Debian .deb
>> package from my current (modified) git master source
>> code tree.
>>
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Debian
>>
>> Is just plain wrong :-(.
>>
>> I've gotten to the point where I can run
>> dpkg-buildpackage with a tarballs directory
>> containing my gzipped master tarball, but
>> it's trying to find:
>>
>> samba4_4.0.0~rc6+dfsg1.orig.tar
>>
>> wtf ? Where is debian getting this version
>> number from ? Why is this shit SO FUCKING
>> HARD on Debian ?
>>
>> Inside packaging/RHEL/ there are scripts...
>>
>> What's the Debian equivalent ?
>
> debian/ subdirectory.
>
> The version is probably coming from debian/changelog.  To add a new
> version, add a new entry at the top of that file.
>
> IIRC, some of the other important files are debian/rules and
> debian/control.
>
> Yes, it is completely different to Red Hat...  but once you get used to
> it...  ;-)

But the real sin is that both of them are completely different to the
Slackware packaging standard!

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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