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List: vcs-pkg
Subject: Re: Dealing with autotools
From: Russ Allbery <rra () stanford ! edu>
Date: 2009-03-10 21:47:55
Message-ID: 878wnd59tg.fsf () windlord ! stanford ! edu
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Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> writes:
> The way I figured so far is this:
>
> 1. git-import-dsc --pristine-tar
> 2. branch off upstream and create a topic branch
> 3. do my changes and test them
> 4. commit only the files that I have changed, and not the files that
> autotools has regenerated. This could be a bit cumbersome, but it
> can be automated with something like:
> git checkout aclocal.m4 configure `git ls-files -c |grep .in\$`
I think if you add a .gitignore file on topic branches that modify the
Autoconf files. I think that will do the same thing for you.
> When packaging, I'm undecided on these two options:
> 1. Build-depend on automake and let it rebuilt itself at 'make' time
Definitely the right solution IMO. This is what I do with all of my
packages.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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