Fwd: How to build kubuntu-docs debian package.

[Sean Wheller]

There is now a debian directory in /kde/ 
Forwarding this here so others can see it and so I won't lose it :-)

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Subject: How to build kubuntu-docs debian package.
Date: Friday 01 July 2005 01:15
From: "Frode M. Døving" <frode at lnix.net>
To: Sean Wheller <sean at inwords.co.za>

Good morning Sean.

A short and incomplete guide to make the kubuntu-docs package follows.


I recommend to make a separate directory for building the package.
Mine is called 'kubuntu-docs' for the kubuntu-docs package.

kubuntu-docs is special from the application packages because:
There is not just kubuntu related documentation in the repository.
The files needed to build kubuntu-docs are included from ../something.

The debian/ directory needs to be in the root-directory of the package.
If we relate this to the repository  at
svn+https://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos/trunk/

We know that 'make kdeb' in kde/ includes files from ../common and ../authors
and so on. So we will have to put the debian/ dir directly in
svn+https://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos/trunk/ and not in
svn+https://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos/trunk/kde/ which would be cleaner and
not conflicting with the ubuntu-docs debian/ dir.

When debian packages are buildt a source package is made first.
The source package basically makes a tarball of the directory containing the
debian/ directory. If we relate this to the repository again, that means
whole trunk/. And we don't want that.

That is why I suggest you make a directory called 'kubuntu-docs'.

Next;
Make a package directory, this might sound strange, at first,but the
kubuntu-docs directory is the directory where the result will end up. So we
need another directory inside the first. This should be named
kubuntu-docs-<version>. Mine is kubuntu-docs-0.1

By now you should have two directories like this:
kubuntu-docs/kubuntu-docs-0.1

Move the debian/ dir you got from me into the 'kubuntu-docs-0.1' directory.
Copy the folders needed from trunk/ to your local 'kubuntu-docs-0,1'
directory.

When I did this i copied these folders from the repository:
common
generic
kde
libs

At this time that is all the folders needed from trunk/ to make the kubuntu
documentation.

Now you should have these directories:

kubuntu-docs
`-- kubuntu-docs-0.1

    |-- build
    |-- common
    |-- debian
    |-- generic
    |-- kde

    `-- libs

You need some tools to actually build the package.
Install these packages:
debhelper
devscripts
cdbs

When the tools are installed you can cd into 'kubuntu-docs-0.1' directory and
issue the command 'debuild -us -uc' to make the package.

I hope this helps you on the way.
Ask me on irc or send a mail if it isn't working.

Info from the wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingTips
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KubuntuPackagingGuide

- Frode M. Doeving
aka  uniq @ freenode.

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Sean Wheller
Technical Author
sean at inwords.co.za
084-854-9408
http://www.inwords.co.za
Registered Linux User #375355
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