README-Debian-package needs to be updated

[pmelange]

The server svn.debian.org does not exist anymore. Therefore it is quite difficult to make debian packages.

Luckily I still had a copy of the svn debian-build repository. I have saved it as a tar in https://github.com/pmelange/Temporary-Files/blob/master/OLSRd-packages/debian/olsrd-debian-build.tar

[vchrizz]

try https://salsa.debian.org/debian/olsrd

[pmelange]

Thanks for the link.

I have a fork of OLSRd, so I tried the following. Unfortunately it didn't work.

git clone <myForkedRepo.git>
cd olsrd
git checkout <myBranch>
mkdir debbuild
cd debbuild
git clone https://salsa.debian.org/debian/olsrd.git
mv olsrd/debian ..
cd ..
echo "1.0" > debian/source/format
vi debian/changelog # update to my version number
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us

now instead of just making the debian packages, it seems to want to install olsrd. That is not what I want. Here is the error:

========= C O N F I G U R A T I O N - F I L E ============
olsrd uses the configfile /etc/olsrd/olsrd.conf
a default configfile. A sample RFC-compliance aimed
configfile can be found in olsrd.conf.default.rfc.
However none of the larger OLSRD using networks use that
so install a configfile with activated link quality exstensions
per default.
can be found at files/olsrd.conf.default.lq
==========================================================
mkdir -p /etc/olsrd
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/etc/olsrd’: Permission denied
Makefile:168: recipe for target 'install_olsrd' failed
make[2]: *** [install_olsrd] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pmelange/src/olsrd'
debian/rules:27: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_install' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pmelange/src/olsrd'
debian/rules:15: recipe for target 'binary' failed
make: *** [binary] Error 2

The only files generated are olsrd_<version>.dsc and olsrd_<version>.tar.gz

Can you help any further? Would it make more sense to add the debian directoy to this repo?

[vchrizz]

mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/etc/olsrd’: Permission denied

had this problem too, thus made a PR: Fix Makefiles not to create files in root dir when building packages

but for building debian packages i considered not to do everything by hand and found this neat software debian-jenkins-glue to be very handy for this task.

[pmelange]

jenkins-glue seems to be quite cool, but since my feature is in production, I don't really need it. I just need to make the packages once.

Also, as per the install instructions, I need sudo permission. This should not be a requirement to build debian packages.

I have added the Makefile changes from #63 in my branch, and it works. Thanks for the tip. I look forward to seeing that PR get merged.

But still, README-Debian-package is out of date. Would you say that the instructions above are ok? Or is there some git magic to just get the debian directory from https://salsa.debian.org/debian/olsrd.git and put it directly in my forked olsrd directory structure.

Or, would it be better to have the debian directory in the main olsrd repo?

@fhuberts what do you think?

[vchrizz]

Or, would it be better to have the debian directory in the main olsrd repo?

i thought about that too, but since there is a debian catalog "maintained" on salsa.debian.org, i would say its better to use this, so i use that git repo for packaging. a copy of that here would make hassles in having them both sync i guess.
its fairly recent on 0.9.6.1, i forked it and copied changes from github-olsrd repo over into upstream branch, added tag 0.9.6.2 and actually am using my forked repo for building packages.
one could do that too on the salsa-olsrd repo to update it...

[pmelange]

I Cherry-picked your commit in #63 to my feature branch.

Also, I figured out how to get the debian directory with git magic. I think these instructions are better.

git clone <url to olsrd repo>
cd olsrd
git checkout <you branch> # This step is optional
git add remote debbuild https://salsa.debian.org/debian/olsrd.git 
git fetch debbuild
git checkout debbuild/master debian
echo "1.0" > debian/source/format
vi debian/changelog # Set the version number on top line
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
ls-l ../olsrd*.*

I would make the change to README-Debian-package. What do you think?

[vchrizz]

echo "1.0" > debian/source/format
this is often made i noticed but not really a good idea, see this link for details: https://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0
in my opinion, better to let it on "3.0 (quilt)" and make everything around work with it, instead using hacks for quick&dirty fix.

[pmelange]

Leaving it as "3.0 (quilt)" gave me the following error:

dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../olsrd_0.9.6.1.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz}
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b olsrd gave error exit status 255

I would say that incompatibility with "3.0 (quilt)" should be it's own issue.

[vchrizz]

that error just tells you, it wants to build from a (previously created) tar file.
create that tarball beforehand and it should work.

[pmelange]

resolved 7e33556