Re: [RFC v5] builddeb: Try to determine distribution

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On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 03:08:27AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-01-03 at 02:00 +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > lsb_release command is a good choice to determine the distribution
> > name for the changelog file in the generated Debian packages [1].
> > Its installation is no precondition.
> > In Debian it is still not essential or build-essential.
> > 
> > Ben gave some helpful informations and detailed explanations in [2].
> > There he also suggested to have an option to explicitly set the
> > distribution name (see $KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST variable).
> > 
> > Embedded the improvement as suggested by Thorsten (see [3]):
> > 
> > "This is suboptimal: if KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST is defined,
> > lsb_release is not necessary. The following snippet
> > also omits using its output if it fails but still
> > produces any:"
> > 
> > Dealing with this issue I learned about "The Colon in the Shell." and
> > possible pitfalls in this area (see [4,5]). Furthermore, refreshed my
> > knowledge about redirecting outputs with the echo command (see [5]).
> > Special thanks to Thorsten, I enjoyed the IRC session with you.
> > 
> > Cooked together the snippets of Ben and Thorsten (see [2,3]).
> > Tested against Linux v3.19-rc2.
> > 
> > Thanks goes to Alexander, Ben, maximilian and Thorsten for the very
> > vital help.
> > 
> > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/516
> > [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=142022188322321&w=2
> > [3] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=142023476825460&w=2
> > [4] http://blog.brlink.eu/index.html#i70
> > [5] https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20141209-tg.htm
> > [6] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23489934/echo-2-some-text-what-does-it-mean-in-shell-scripting
> > 
> > CC: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: maximilian attems <max@xxxxxxx>
> 
> > CC: maximilian attems <max@xxxxxxx>
> > CC: Thorsten Glaser <tg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Alexander Wirt <formorer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
> > CC: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Thorsten Glaser <tg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v5: Improve commit-message and fix Thorsten's email-address
> > v4: Embed improvements suggested by Thorsten
> > v3: Massaged the commit-message
> > v2: Suppress error messages when lsb_release is not installed.
> >     (Thanks maximilian and Ben.)
> > 
> >  scripts/package/builddeb | 13 ++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
> > index 5972624..f631c77 100755
> > --- a/scripts/package/builddeb
> > +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
> > @@ -217,9 +217,20 @@ else
> >  fi
> >  maintainer="$name <$email>"
> >  
> > +# Try to determine distribution
> > +if [ -n "$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST" ]; then
> > +        distribution=$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST
> > +elif distribution=$(lsb_release -cs 2>/dev/null) && [ -n "$distribution" ]; then
> > +        : # nothing to do in this case
> > +else
> > +        distribution="unstable"
> > +        echo >&2 "Using default distribution of 'unstable' in the changelog"
> > +        echo >&2 "Install lsb-release or set \$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST explicitly"
> > +fi
> > +
> >  # Generate a simple changelog template
> >  cat <<EOF > debian/changelog
> > -linux-upstream ($packageversion) unstable; urgency=low
> > +linux-upstream ($packageversion) $distribution; urgency=low
> >  
> >    * Custom built Linux kernel.
> >  
> 
> -- 
> Ben Hutchings
> Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice.
>                                 - John Levine, moderator of comp.compilers


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