Git-buildpackage

(To be written up once experimentation is done.)

Steps

(extracted from #Experiments below.)

• Clone the repository if it doesn't exist yet, e.g. from git.debian.org:

$ cd ~/git/debs/
$ git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-puppet/repo.git

• Set git username/email

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
$ git config --global user.email you@example.com

• Set up the local branches upstream and pristine-tar from the remote branches (but don't switch to them):

$ git branch upstream origin/upstream
$ git branch pristine-tar origin/pristine-tar

• Build a source package:

$ git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new --git-export-dir=/var/tmp/build-area/packagename -S

• Build the binary packages with Pbuilder:

# pbuilder --basetgz /var/cache/pbuilder/lucid.tgz /var/tmp/build-area/packagename/packagename_version.dsc

...

Pushing the repository into Gerrit

You should push any repository with local changes into Gerrit.

• Create a new repository, operations/debs/packagename using the following Gerrit command:

$ ssh username@gerrit.wikimedia.org -p 29418 'gerrit create-project -d "Package packagename" -n operations/debs/packagename -o ops -p operations/debs'

• Create a new remote called gerrit:

$ git remote add gerrit ssh://username@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/operations/debs/packagename

• Push the three local branches (master, upstream and pristine-tar) into the fresh remote repository:

$ git push gerrit --all

Experiments

Mark is experimenting with building puppet using git-buildpackage, in labs.

On i-00000080:

• The debian puppet package git repository was cloned into ~/git/debs/puppet:

$ cd ~/git/debs/
$ git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-puppet/puppet.git

• Package build was attempted with git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new --git-pristine-tar
• Signing the package failed, as the Debian maintainer's secret key is not available.
• Package build was attempted without signing:

$ git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new --git-pristine-tar -us -uc

• This worked. We ended up with built packages in ~/git/debs, and a dirty git working dir.
• The git working directory was made clean again, and another build was attempted using

$ git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new --git-pristine-tar -us -uc --git-export-dir=/var/tmp/build-area/puppet

• This worked as well. Packages were being built, and the git working dir remained clean. Packages ended up in the build dir.
• The debian git dir only had version 2.7.6, but we want 2.7.7rc2. So I tried importing the dev release with

$ git-import-orig /tmp/puppet-2.7.7rc2.tar.gz

• This failed, as there was no local upstream branch in the cloned git repository yet. Ok, so let's create it from origin/upstream:

$ git branch upstream origin/upstream

• Now the import worked. But commits were made, with the default git name/mail address. Do set it:

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
$ git config --global user.email you@example.com

• Try another build.

$ git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new --git-pristine-tar -us -uc --git-export-dir=/var/tmp/build-area/puppet

• Oops. This used version 2.7.6. But, the git-buildpackage manual says changing the changelog itself all the time isn't a good idea. Let's try git-dch:

$ git-dch --snapshot
Changelog has been prepared for snapshot #1 at 48473567008ad82cdb0d0a5654dffe7c868fad91

$ git diff
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 796b61e..f6da810 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+puppet (2.7.6-1ubuntu1~1.gbp484735) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  ** SNAPSHOT build @48473567008ad82cdb0d0a5654dffe7c868fad91 **
+
+  * Imported Upstream version 2.7.7rc2
+
+ -- Mark Bergsma <mark@i-00000080.pmtpa.wmflabs>  Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:06:45 +0000
+

• Cool, but not quite what I need. There was no commit, so let's simply revert that, and try again after reading the git-dch manual:

$ git checkout debian/changelog
$ git-dch --snapshot -N 2.7.6+2.7.7rc2 --git-author

$ git diff
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 796b61e..06a9cac 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+puppet (2.7.6+2.7.7rc2~1.gbp484735) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  ** SNAPSHOT build @48473567008ad82cdb0d0a5654dffe7c868fad91 **
+
+  * Imported Upstream version 2.7.7rc2
+
+ -- Mark Bergsma <mark@wikimedia.org>  Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:23:22 +0000
+

• Now let's try a new build:

$ git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new --git-pristine-tar -us -uc --git-export-dir=/var/tmp/build-area/puppet

• Whoops. It built 2.7.6 instead. Probably because it exported HEAD into the build area. Let's see what it does within the git repository.

$ git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new --git-pristine-tar -us -uc

• So that worked. Hmm, inconsistent. :( I guess we could choose not to care about version numbers for snapshots, and only care about them for releases.