NAME

       cvs-autoreleasedeb - Automatic Release of debian packages from CVS

DESCRIPTION

       This script generates and uploads the debian package for cvs modules managed by
       cvs-buildpackage.

       cvs-autoreleasedeb will maintain a state file of all the packages you want to be
       automatically published, and every time you commit the debian/changelog file of your
       package, changing the debian version to a greater value, it will be published.

       All the parameters to the script are configured in the conffile. There is no command-line
       switch. See cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf(5) for more information.

USING

       There are two ways of using this script:

       1) Run as user cvs-autoreleasedeb in cron. This is very useful for software houses that
       want to have the "nightily build" version of the software published automatically.  In
       this case, the config file will be "/etc/cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf" and it will use
       /var/lib/cvs-autoreleasedeb/ as scratch dir.

         NOTE: edit /etc/default/cvs-autoreleasedeb to control this behavior
         NOTE 2: all output will be thrown in /var/log/cvs-autoreleasedeb/run.log

       2) Run as yourself, it will automatizate the work you will have if you have your packages
       in CVS.  In this case, the config file will be $HOME/.cvs-autoreleasedeb/conf and the
       scratch dir will be $HOME/.cvs-autoreleasedeb.  cvs-autoreleasedeb will not create
       defaults, you must have the configuration file created before running cvs-autoreleasedeb.
       See cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf(5).

TODO

        - Use a snapshot of the time of the commit in
          the changelog to checkout the source
        - Localize the messages.
        - Work with other than all lowercase in conffile.
        - Use a better format for conffile.

_EXIT CODES

        _exit codes:
        0 = Clean _exit
        1 = Config file not found
        2 = No packages in config file
        3 = Couldn't open the state file
        4 = Couldn't open the state file for writing
        5 = Couldn't determine architecture

SEE ALSO

       cvs-buildpackage(1), cvs(1), cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf(5), dupload(1)

AUTHOR

       This  manual page was written by Daniel Ruoso <daniel@ruoso.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux
       system.