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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.
Debian Feb 21 1998 CVSDEB.CONF(5)