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NAME

       cvs-upgrade - upgrade a debian source package kept in a CVS repository

SYNOPSIS

       cvs-upgrade [options] <package name> <upstream version> [<debian revision>]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual page explains the Debian cvs-upgrade utility, which is used to upgrade Debian
       source packages in a CVS repository. It expect a properly conditioned new upstream sources
       in the cvs-buildpackage work directory

       The    upstream    sources    are    imported    to   the   vendor   branch   and   tagged
       upstream_version_<upstream version> with all dots translated to underscores. At this point
       the cvs-upgrade utility pauses automatic actions, since manual intervention is required to
       resolve any conflicts that may have occurred.  It reminds the user about checking out  the
       sources,    resolving    conflicts,    and   tagging   the   debianized   sources,   using
       debian_version_<upstream  version>-<debian  revision>  with   all   dots   translated   to
       underscores.

       Please  note  that  this  command  does  not actually change the working directory, or any
       checked out copies. If you do not  have  a  working  directory,  you  may  simply  do  the
       following manually:
         cvs co -jupstream_version_<OLD-VERS> -jupstream_version_<NEW VERS> <PKG>

       If you already have a checked out working directory, please do:
         cvs update -d -jupstream_version_<OLD-VERS> -jupstream_version__<NEW VERS>

       cvs-upgrade  expects  the  package  name,  upstream  version, and, if relevant, the Debian
       revision on the command line. It also expects to find a properly conditioned new  upstream
       source archive, in .orig.tar.gz format, in the cvs-buildpackage working directory.  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.

       cvs-upgrade  reads  the same config file /etc/cvsdeb.conf as the the other cvs-* utilities
       do.  People may use of the dry-run option to inspect the steps this utility takes.

       Combined with the companion utilities cvs-buildpackage and cvs-inject,  this  provides  an
       infrastructure to facilitate the use of CVS by Debian maintainers. This allows one to keep
       separate CVS branches of  a  package  for  stable,  unstable,  and  possibly  experimental
       distributions, along with the other benefits of a version control system.

CAVEATS

       Please  note  that  the current behaviour of cvs-upgrade is to ignore files that match the
       default list of file name patterns to be ignored (this is built into cvs);  and  that  any
       .cvsignore files in the upstream sources shall be honoured. This should be fine as long as
       upstream sources do not include files that match CVS ignore patterns and yet should be  in
       the sources. The current list of ignored file name patterns is:
              RCS  SCCS  CVS CVS.adm RCSLOG cvslog.* tags TAGS .make.state .nse_depinfo *~ #* .#*
              ,* _$* *$ *.old *.bak *.BAK *.orig *.rej .del-* *.a *.olb *.o *.obj *.so *.exe  *.Z
              *.elc *.ln core

       If  you  wish  to  modify  this  behaviour,  there are ways to do this (you should see CVS
       documentation).

       o)     The per-repository list in `$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore' is appended to the list, if
              that file exists.

       o)     The  per-user  list in `.cvsignore' in your home directory is appended to the list,
              if it exists.

       o)     Any entries in the environment variable $CVSIGNORE is appended to the list.

       In any of the places listed above, a single exclamation  mark  (`!')   clears  the  ignore
       list.   This  can  be used if you want to store any file which normally is ignored by CVS.
       Also, any .cvsignore file found in the source directory is also honoured.

OPTIONS

       -h                  Print out a usage message.

       -m                  If present, this option directs this program  to  include  the  latest
                           debian  changelog, if any, into the commit message. This overrides the
                           environment variable CVSDEB_USE_CHANGELOG

       -M<module>          The name of the CVS module. This argument overrides  the  settings  in
                           the  environment  variable  CVSDEB_MODULE.   There is no corresponding
                           config file variable.

       -F                  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. Without this option, the
                           cvs-upgrade  program  shall  exit  with  an error message. This option
                           causes cvs-upgrade to ask whether you want  to  delete  the  offending
                           files.  If  you answer y, it removes them and continues; else it shall
                           exit with an error message.  This argument overrides the  settings  in
                           the  environment  variable  CVSDEB_FORCECLEAN, which in turn overrides
                           the setting in the configuration file, conf_forceclean.

       -T<tag>             The CVS tag to use for exporting sources, rather than constructing one
                           from the version. This assumes you know what you are doing.

       -U<tag>             The  CVS tag to use for the upstream tag, rather than constructing one
                           from the upstream version. This assumes you know what you are doing.

       -x<prefix>          The name of the default  CVS  prefix.   This  argument  overrides  the
                           settings  in  the  environment  variable  CVSDEB_PREFIX, which in turn
                           overrides the setting in the configuration file, conf_prefix.

       -R<root directory>  Root  of  the  original  sources  archive.  We  expect  to  find   the
                           <package name>_<version>.orig.tar.gz             file            under
                           <root directory>/package name>/  unless  the   cvs-buildpackage   work
                           directory has been set, or we want to export the original sources from
                           the vendor branch of  the  CVS  tree.  If  the  cvs-buildpackage  work
                           directory   is   set  anywhere,  (command  line,  configuration  file,
                           environment variable), the root directory value is ignored,  since  we
                           only  need  the root directory to set defaults for the work directory.
                           This argument overrides  the  settings  in  the  environment  variable
                           CVSDEB_ROOTDIR,  and  the  configuration  file  variable conf_rootdir.
                           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.

       -W<work directory>  The working directory, into which the sources will be exported out  of
                           CVS      and      which      should      contain      the     original
                           <package name>_<version>.orig.tar.gz  Please  note  that  it  is   not
                           essential  to have the original sources, as this script will check out
                           the  vendor  branch  version  tagged   as   upstream_version_<version>
                           (without  the  Debian  revision).  Setting this variable overrides the
                           settings for the root directory.  This  argument  also  overrides  the
                           settings  in  the  environment  variable  CVSDEB_WORKDIR,  and  in the
                           configuration file variable conf_workdir.  This should probably not be
                           a sub dir of CVSROOT, since cvs shall refuse to export packages there,
                           and the script shall fail.

       -d<number>          Turn on debugging output. This lists the version numbers, the work and
                           root  directories,  as well as the CVS tag used to export the sources.
                           This overrides the DEBUG variable in the configuration file.

       -ctp                Include package_ at the start of the  CVS  tag.   This  overrides  the
                           CVSDEB_PACKAGEINTAG   environment   variable   and  the  conf_forcetag
                           configuration file option.  The default is not to include the prefix.

       -n                  The no exec (or dry-run) option, causing cvs-upgrade to print out  all
                           actions that would be taken without actually executing them.

       -v                  Make the utility more verbose.

       CVSDEB_IMPORTSUBSTMODE
                           You   are   also   allowed   to   specify   an  environment  variable,
                           CVSDEB_IMPORTSUBSTMODE, that overrides the default substitution option
                           of  -ko -d.  This is useful when you want to import a package that has
                           a bunch of binary files in the source tree (like emacs or rscheme).

FILES

       Apart from the runtime options, cvs-upgrade also looks for site-wide defaults in the  file
       /etc/cvsdeb.conf.   After  that,  it  looks  for  and  reads  ~/.cvsdeb.conf  The  default
       configuration allows there to be a site-wide override for the root or the cvs-buildpackage
       working  directories  on  the  site,  but  the cvsdeb.conf files are actually Bourne shell
       snippets, and any legal shell directives may be included in there.  Note: Caution is urged
       with  this  file, since you can totally change the way that the script behaves by suitable
       editing this file.

SEE ALSO

       cvs-buildpackage(1), cvs-inject(1), cvsdeb.conf(5), cvs(1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was  written  Manoj  Srivastava  <srivasta@debian.org>,  for  the  Debian
       GNU/Linux system.