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added information on building Debian packages

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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Development Loan Fund</a>, under the GNU <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a>.<br>
<ul>
<li>Author: $Author: maroy $</li>
<li>Version: $Revision: 1.4 $</li>
<li>Version: $Revision: 1.5 $</li>
<li>Location: $Source: /home/paul/cvs2svn-livesupport/newcvsrepo/livesupport/doc/release.html,v $</li>
</ul>
<h1>Scope</h1>
@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ The release process boils down to the following steps:<br>
</li>
<li>creating release tarballs</li>
<li>testing the tarballs</li>
<li>creating Debian packages<br>
</li>
<li>tagging the sources</li>
<li>publishing the tarballs</li>
<li>announcing the release<br>
@ -88,6 +90,31 @@ the tarballs, follow the procedure described in the LiveSupport <a
<br>
Do not publish tarballs that have not been tested, or are known to be
broken.<br>
<h1>Creating Debian packages</h1>
After the source tarballs have been tested, Debian source and binary
packages can be created. To do so, upload the source tarballs to a
Debian system, and do the following:<br>
<br>
<pre><code>tar xfj livesupport-&lt;ls-version&gt;.tar.bz2<br>tar xfj livesupport-libraries-&lt;ls-version&gt;.tar.bz2<br>cd livesupport-&lt;ls-version&gt;<br>./bin/createDebianPackages.sh -d .. -v &lt;ls-version&gt; -m "Package Maintainer &lt;maintainer@foo.bar&gt;" -o ..<br>cd ..<br></code></pre>
<br>
The above command will create the Debain source package files next to
the original source tarballs. The script will generate the following
files, making up the Debian source package:<br>
<br>
<pre><code>livesupport_&lt;ls-version&gt;-1.dsc<br></code><code>livesupport_&lt;ls-version&gt;-1.diff.gz<br></code><code>livesupport_&lt;ls-version&gt;.orig.tar.gz<br><br></code></pre>
Based on the source packages, the Debian package management system can
build the binaries for the current target platform, provided all the
necessary packages required to build are installed on the system. For a
list of the necessary packages, please consult the debian/control file
in extracted debianized source tree generated below.<br>
Building is best done
in an empty directory as follows:<br>
<br>
<pre><code>rm -rf debian_build<br>mkdir debian_build<br>cd debian_build<br></code>dpkg-source -x ../livesupport_&lt;ls_version&gt;-1.dsc<br>cd livesupport-&lt;ls-version&gt;<br>dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot<br>cd ../..<br><br></pre>
The above commands will result in the following debian packages:<br>
<br>
<pre><code>livesupport-libs_&lt;ls-version&gt;-1_&lt;arch&gt;.deb<br></code><code>livesupport-station_&lt;ls-version&gt;-1_&lt;arch&gt;.deb<br></code><code>livesupport-studio_&lt;ls-version&gt;-1_&lt;arch&gt;.deb</code><br></pre>
<pre><code></code><code></code></pre>
<h1>Tagging the sources</h1>
After the tarballs have been tested, the release can be finalized. As a
first step, the current state of the LiveSupport version control
@ -99,12 +126,17 @@ directory:<br>
<pre><code>cvs tag livesupport_&lt;ls-version&gt;<br></code></pre>
<br>
This will tag the current state of the repository with the tag <code>livesupport_&lt;ls-version&gt;</code>,
enabling later retrieval of this specific state.<br>
enabling later retrieval of this specific state. Please note that since
CVS does not support dots (<code>'.'</code>) in tags, the dots in the
version number are replaced by underscore (<code>'_'</code>) when
tagging. Thus, <code>livesupport-0.9.1</code> is tagged as <code>livesupport-0_9_1</code>,
for example.<br>
<h1>Publishing the tarballs</h1>
To make the release available to the public, the created tarballs have
to be published. This is done by making the files accessible under the
URL <code></code><code>http://livesupport.campware.org/look/campware/download/</code>
. Currently, only MDLF support staff have access to publish into this
LiveSupport project page on SourceForge: <code>http://sourceforge.net/projects/livesupport</code><span
style="font-family: monospace;"></span><code></code>. Currently, only
MDLF support staff have access to publish into this
space, so after creating the tarballs, one should contact them
personally to publish the files.<br>
<h1>Announcing the release</h1>