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NAME
cvsdeb.conf - site-wide configuration file for cvs-buildpackage and friends
SYNOPSIS
/etc/cvsdeb.conf
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/cvsdeb.conf is actually a Bourne Shell snippet included during the package
build process, and hence you may put any shell directive in that file (just make very sure
you know what you are doing).
All the variables have reasonable default values, and some maybe overridden on a per run
or a per individual basis by using environment variables, and all configurable variables
can be overridden by options to the scripts themselves.
The value of a variable can be set so:
a) Defaults exist in the rules file. These are the values used if no customization is
done.
b) Some variables can be set in the config file /etc/cvsdeb.conf. These values override
the defaults.
c) Some variables can also be set by setting a corresponding environment variable. These
values override the config file and the defaults.
d) Using script command line options. All configurable variables may be set by this
method, and will override the other methods above.
Predefined variables for cvs-buildpackage
The following variables are defined for cvs-buildpackage.
package Name of the package
version The raw version of the package
sversion The version number stripped of epochs.
uversion The upstream version.
tversion Debian revision number, if any.
Configuration File options
At the moment, the user modifiable variables supported are:
DEBUG Debugging information: The default value is 0 (no debugging information
is printed). To enable debugging output, set the value to 1.
conf_forceclean There are two things CVS may choke on: symbolic links and CVS
directories in the source tree. Also, there are times when one may not
want to honour the upstream .cvsignore files. The conf_forceclean.
configuration variable causes the cvs-inject and cvs-upgrade programs to
ask whether the offending files should be deleted, if not, the programs
exit with an error message. Without this option, the programs exit with
an error message without asking. This can be over ridden by the
environment variable CVSDEB_FORCECLEAN.
conf_rootdir The root directory is used to set the default value of the cvs-
buildpackage work directory, using the package name. The default value
is /usr/src/Packages. This should probably not be a sub dir of CVSROOT,
since cvs shall refuse to export packages there, and the script shall
fail.
conf_workdir The cvs-buildpackage work directory. This directory is where the
original sources are expected, and this is where the module shall be
exported from CVS. If you set this value, the value of the root
directory would be ignored. Please note that the cvs-buildpackage work
directory referred to here is the scratch directory where this program
works, not the directory that the human uses to work in. This should
probably not be a sub dir of CVSROOT, since cvs shall refuse to export
packages there, and the script shall fail.
conf_dpkg_options This is where one may stash -us -uc or whatever to pass on to
dpkg-buildpackage. This is different from the other variables in that
this is an array variable. These options shall augment (not replace)
dpkg-buildpackage options provided on the command line.
Bash provides one-dimensional array variables. Any variable may be used
as an array; the `declare' builtin will explicitly declare an array.
There is no maximum limit on the size of an array, nor any requirement
that members be indexed or assigned contiguously. Arrays are zero-
based.
Arrays are assigned to using compound assignments of the form
conf_dpkg_options=(value1 ... valueN) or dpkg_options=(value1
${dpkg_options[@]})
conf_rootcommand This is where one specifies the default command to gain root access
(usually set to fakeroot, sudo or super ). This is also passed along to
dpkg-buildpackage.
conf_buildpackage Sets the name of the builder program invoked, nominally set to dpkg-
buildpackage. However, the user may choose to use a different build
program, or a wrapper, or even 'chroot /opt/root dpkg-buildpackage' to
build the package in a chroot jail, if desired. (Obviously, this
requires that the Work directory to be a subdirectory of a previously
set up chroot jail). One may also hook in pbuilder by setting this
variable to 'pdebuild --auto-debsign --buildresult ../'. (Again, this
requires that pbuilder has been set up correctly). This option can be
over ridden by the environment variable CVSDEB_BUILDPACKAGE.
conf_packageopts Additional arguments to give to conf_buildpackage that shall be appended
to dpkg-buildpackage options. Use this variable to append to the list of
options. This option can be over ridden by the environment variable
CVSDEB_PACKAGEOPTS.
conf_forcetag. If this is set, then cvs-buildpackage shall call cvs tag -F to ensure
that all files are re-tagged correctly.
conf_prefix=prefix
If this is set, then this prefix is prepended to the package name while
looking for the repository. In other word, we append this to CVSROOT
while looking for packages. Use this to group all your Debian package
sources together in a subdirectory in the CVS repository
conf_packageintag.
If this is set, then cvs-buildpackage will include the package name and
an underscore at the start of every CVS tag it generates or uses.
conf_cvsmodule This option sets the CVS module for use with cvs-inject and cvs-upgrade.
conf_use_changelog
This option tells the cvs-inject and cvs-upgrade commands to incorporate
debian changelog entries into the cvs changelog.
conf_hook_script This option, if set, should point to a script that should be run just
before calling dpkg-buildpackage. Ideally, things like this are done
using the modules file and programs, but is still provided here for
convenience. This is overridden by the environment variable
CVSDEB_HOOK.
conf_get_orig This option, if set, should contain a command to execute to get the
original tarball into the current directory. This can then be used to
allow one to get the original file using, for instance, wget or curl.
This is overridden by the CVSDEB_GET_ORIG environment variable.
conf_use_apt If set to YES, cvs-buildpackage will use apt-get source to retrive the
original tarball, if one for the correct upstream version is found in a
Sources file known to apt. This is overridden by the CVSDEB_USE_APT
environment variable.
Environment Variables
At the moment, the user modifiable variables supported are:
CVSDEB_ROOTDIR If defined, this environment variable will override the value of the root
directory set in the configuration file.
CVSDEB_WORKDIR If defined, this environment variable will override the value of the cvs-
buildpackage work directory set in the configuration file, and would cause
the scripts to ignore the root directory, irrespective of where that value
was set.
CVSDEB_MODULE If defined, this environment variable will override the value of the CVS
module set in the configuration file.
CVSDEB_USE_CHANGELOG
If defined, this environment variable will make cvs-inject and cvs-upgrade
programs incorporate entries from the Debian changelog file into the CVS
changelog.
CVSDEB_BUILDPACKAGE.
If defined, this environment variable will override the value of the
configuration file variable conf_buildpackage
CVSDEB_HOOK Over rides the configuration file option conf_hook_script.
CVSDEB_GET_ORIG
Over rides the configuration file option conf_get_orig.
Files
System-wide defaults are placed in /etc/cvsdeb.conf, This can be overridden and
supplemented by ~/.cvsdeb.conf file by each user.
SEE ALSO
cvs-inject(1), cvs-buildpackage(1), cvs-upgrade(1), dpkg-buildpackage(1), cvs(1).
BUGS
There are no bugs. Any resemblance thereof is delirium. Really.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, for the Debian
GNU/Linux system.