On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 06:28:10AM +0000, Nathan Scott wrote: > Dave Chinner <david <at> fromorbit.com> writes: > > > > > It breaks the 'make deb' command for all the trees. > > > > (thanks for checking!) > > > The debian package build creates a link tree so that it builds > > outside the main source tree (e.g. in ./xfsprogs-3.1.10) and as part > > of the build it runs 'make dist' to build a tarball from that link > > tree. That now fails with: > > > > fatal: current working directory is untracked > > > > coming from the git archive command that is now used to build the > > tarball. > > > > Nathan, can the debian package build use git-archive? I'm under the > > impression that you have to be able to build debian packages from a > > source tarball or a source package, and so the build can't rely on > > being inside a VCS controlled tree. That rules out using git archive > > for tarball creation... > > > > IIRC, the requirement is to be building in a tree that had a basename > of for <package>-<version> - hence the link'd tree build previously. > If that can be maintained somehow, the build should be fine. Symlinks > did not work very well (IIRC) - the build tools might've used basename > or realpath or something like that, but I do remember trying that. > > > Also, given that the previous tarball creation used the same link > > tree build as the debian package build (i.e. make source-link), that > > implies the debian pacakges are going to be missing files using this > > technique. Doesn't that mean we have to fix the file list being fed > > into the source-link target regardless of whether we use git archive > > to build the tarball? > > The source tarball definitely needs to have the package-version prefix > for all the files it contains - has a mechanism to acheive that been > found? It has... with a combo of git archive --prefix and tar --transform. I'll see what I can do to get 'make deb' going again. Thanks, Ben _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
