Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> cvs-autoreleasedeb is probably what you're looking for, though I haven't >> tried it myself. > > This calls cvs-buildpackage, and that one talks of having > *.orig.tar.gz files. This sounds as if they mean something other > than what I mean, when they talk about CVS repositories. > > Maybe there was a misunderstanding somewhere. Here's what I want to do: > > cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs > > Then I want to construct a Debian package from the resulting > directory. > > Will cvs-autoreleasedb or cvs-buildpackge help me with doing this?
I would assume they mean creating the orig.tar.gz out of the CVS checkout, which it seems cvs-autoreleasedeb should do automatically. You may be better off bugging Jerome Marant, who has already prepared an emacs-cvs package and plans to upload it to unstable in the near future. -- You win again, gravity! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
