Git-Buildpackage
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Git-Buildpackage

There's one more layer of wrappers to be laid. Git-buildpackage keeps the packaging material in a git repository, and the packaging is done straight from the committed data, not from the state of the current directory.

Procedure 12.  Getting git-buildpackage ready

  1. apt-get install git-buildpackage

  2. Add these settings to ~/.gbp.conf: 

    <snip>
[DEFAULT]
builder = /usr/bin/pdebuild
[git-buildpackage]
sign-tags = True
keyid = BCB62767
# Dir relative to .. is made/found by pdebuild. For cowbuilder/git-pbuilder, different settings are needed
export-dir = ..
tarball-dir = ..
<snip>

  3. sudo ARCH=i386 DIST=wheezy cowbuilder --create

Procedure 13.  Using git-buildpackage

  1. apprentice@host:~/packaging$ apt-get source -d hello
    apprentice@host:~/packaging$ mkdir hello.git
    apprentice@host:~/packaging$ cd hello.git

  2. apprentice@host:~/packaging/hello.git$ git init
    apprentice@host:~/packaging/hello.git$ git-import-dsc ../hello_2.8-4.dsc

  3. apprentice@host:~/packaging/hello.git$ ARCH=i386 DIST=wheezy git-buildpackage