Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (49 mails)

[Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar <dimstar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2018-11-30 at 23:17 +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> I'm trying to follow an upstream GNU package's Git repo which has a gnulib
> submodule, and PO files from 'translationproject.org'.
>
> Example:
>   https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:berny:branches:fromgit/hello
>
> Do I do it right?
>
> Long story:
> In this case, I need to create a distribution tarball without gnulib
> and PO from network.  Furthermore, "obs_scm" service doesn't create
> a full Git clone; so in my example - GNU hello, for simplicity - I needed
> to add a hack to be able to create the manpage.
>
> The idea is:
>
> a) let _service get the package from the remote Git repo.
> (unfortunately, this yields the working tree without the '.git/' history).
>
> b) let _service download the PO files --> "SourceXY".
>
> c) GNU hello specific: manpage creating is usually only done in
> maintainer environment, i.e., with a '.git/' directory.  Add a
> little patch to work around it.

This seems like a bogus check in the upstreamcode: man page should be
created if asked for and not in place. the presence of .git should not
matter

> d) in '%prep'', copy the PO files into the build tree.
>
> e) in '%build', create the LINGUAS file.
>
> f) in %build:
> f.1) create the intermediate distribution tarball using:
>        ./bootstrap ... && ./configure && make all dist

creating the dist tarball should not be nescesasry and can be skipped.
You can make/make install directly out of the git checkout tree

> f.2) create the final build from the above distribution tarball:
>        tar -xf ... && ./configure && make

As above, this can be skipped


> Does anybody else do something like that?

Have a look for example at:

openSUSE:Factory/appstream-glib

we get the git checkout using _service and build from it (it has no
submodules, but submodules are supported by OBS)

Cheers
Dominique