On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3. $ sudo apt-get build > > Run from within the source tree, this wrappers all the work of > generating a patch from the current source tree's changes and adding > it to the package's patch management system (or adding a patch > management system if one doesn't exist), running debuild, set up a > pbuilder environment if needed, run pbuilder to produce the > (unsigned) debs, and place them in the parent directory.
I think debuild already makes a diff.gz. (It would also be nice if, when doing the share, it would have some way of filtering out the weird temp files that can appear in a source tree.) > Would be nice to not have to run it as root, but not sure that > there's an easy way of running pbuilder as non-root. There is pbuilder-uml, but that doesn't count as "easy" ;) Using some from of filesystem virtualisation like Plash may also work, and it would be nice to be able test the package in a sandbox. A rather lightweight sandbox would be to let the application run with Copy-on-write access to the /. This may not suitable for all packages, but there could be a list of ways that a package could be sandboxed. > 4. $ apt-get share [bug id | package-name] > > Like you mention, presents user with a list of their outstanding > patches applicable for the given bug or package (or all in the > system), prompts for annotation, allows gpg-signing, and uploads to > the appropriate place. Maybe a PPA, or maybe sending directly to a > Launchpad bug ID, with request to add to ubuntu and/or debian. > > Of course, the above paints over a huge amount of implementational > complexity. Perhaps this could only be achieved for certain well-formed > packages. Perhaps when one comes across a non-well-formed package one could fix it and do an apt-get share :) -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
