tla-buildpackage - Build Debian packages from a tla/Arch archive

tla-buildpackage [ args for debuild ... ]

The tla-buildpackage command is used to build Debian source and .deb packages from a checked-out version of a Debian source tree. Please refer to the tla-buildpackage manual for instructions on how to check out such a tree.

tla-buildpackage will, in order:

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Verify that it is being executed from the proper location.

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Check to see if a proper orig.tar.gz exists. If not, it will check out the proper upstream directory from the tla-buildpackage repository (if necessary) and build the orig.tar.gz. The orig.tar.gz will not contain Arch meta-data.

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Call debuild(1) with arguments instructing it to ignore Arch meta-data in the diff.gz, passing along all arguments given to tla-buildpackage.

All options passed to tla-buildpackage are sent directly to debuild(1).

~$ cd ~/tree/debian
~/tree/debian$ tla buildcfg debian/rdiff-backup/0.12.5-1
~/tree/debian$ cd +packages/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.12.5
~/tree/debian/+packages/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.12.5$ tla-buildpackage \
        -rfakeroot
      

The following specific files are used by this application:

~/.tla-buildpackage

Specifies the default working copy location for all build procedures. This file, and the directory it specifies, are both normally created by tbp-initarchive.

The following environment variables are used by this application:

TBP_WC

Specifies the working copy area for tla-buildpackage to use for all build-related tasks, overriding the value in ~/.tla-buildpackage, if any.

tla-buildpackage, all associated scripts and programs, this manual, and all build scripts are Copyright (C) 2003 John Goerzen.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

tla-buildpackage, its modules, documentation, executables, and all included files, except where noted, was written by John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> and copyright is held as stated in the COPYRIGHT section.

tla-buildpackage may be downloaded from the Debian packaging system or at <URL:http://packages.debian.org/tla-buildpackage>.

tla-buildpackage may also be downloaded using tla like this:

$ tla register-archive jgoerzen@complete.org--projects \
  http://arch.complete.org/projects
$ tla get \
  jgoerzen@complete.org--projects/configs--head--1.0 \
  jgoerzen
$ cd jgoerzen
$ tla buildcfg tla-buildpackage/latest
      

Detailed usage information, including a background and a description of how the tools fit together, can be found in the tla-buildpackage Manual. On Debian systems, you may find this at /usr/share/doc/tla-buildpackage.

tla-buildpackage applications have references in that manual and the following manpages: tbp-initarchive(1), tbp-importdsc(1), tbp-importorig(1), tbp-markdeb(1), tla-buildpackage(1).

Other related references include: tla(1), debuild(1), dpkg-buildpackage(1).