Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone-usher or usher-server and usher

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:39:56 +0000 (UTC), Hendrik 
Boom <address@hidden> said:

hendrik> On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:26:42 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
hendrik> 
hendrik> > On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:21:19 +0100, Richard Levitte wrote:
hendrik> > 
hendrik> >> In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 19 Dec 2011
hendrik> >> 22:09:13 +0100, Ludovic Brenta <address@hidden> said:
hendrik> >> 
hendrik> >> ludovic> ... but TTBOMK nobody has packaged usher yet.  Sorry about
hendrik> >> ludovic> that.
hendrik> >> 
hendrik> >> There's no final package distributed to Debian, but there's an 
effort
hendrik> >> in branches org.debian.usher and org.debian.usher.experimental.
hendrik> > 
hendrik> > So far I've been advised to look at
hendrik> >   org.debian.usher
hendrik> >   org.debian.experimental

Correction: org.debian.usher.experimental

hendrik> > and
hendrik> >   net.venge.monotone.contrib.usher

Yup.  Let me explain a bit how this is organized, and why you need two
of those branches...  (it's the same as for monotone itself)

First of all, we have the main usher source, without the debian
packaging stuff.  It resides in net.venge.monotone.contrib.usher, and
that's all that should be there.

Then, we have the debian packaging stuff, which ends up in the debian/
subdirectory of the software you want to package.  That directory is
in its own separate branch, org.debian.usher and an experimental
sibbling, org.debian.usher.experimental.

At this point, you should read the policy for debian packaging:
https://code.monotone.ca/p/debian-mtn/page/Policy/
(and hey Ludovic!  I believe it needs being updated!  ;-))

hendrik> I'm evidently still doing somethihg wrong -- again -- because after I 
hendrik> executing
hendrik> 
hendrik> mtn pull "mtn://code.monotone.ca/monotone?org.debian.usher"

Yup, that's not the correct server.  The debian stuff is in 
mtn://code.monotone.ca/debian-mtn

However, considering what I wrote above, that isn't enough either.
A quick way to do this is:

mtn clone "mtn://code.monotone.ca/contrib?net.venge.monotone.contrib.usher" 
usher
cd usher
mtn clone "mtn://code.monotone.ca/debian-mtn?org.debian.usher" debian

The correct way is a little bit more complex.  Since Debian packages
are built from source distributions, the correct way is to build a
source distribution, unpack that, clone the debian directory inside
the resulting directory, then build your debian package from there
(using debuild or pbuilder or whatever you fancy)

hendrik> On the other hand, I have no trouble getting
hendrik>  net.venge.monotone.contrib.usher
hendrik> which seems to contain an usher without the init.d stuff to start it 
at 
hendrik> boot and keep it up.

Yup, that works.

Cheers,
Richard

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