X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=resources.dbk;h=c0351fc53b28233d5913ec2292c32784266ebff4;hb=5e1f46b6bddf303dafba683aaf09c94b37a182fb;hp=fa9cc705d10b0cf35958b7181bc5bd92d0089dc2;hpb=d83ad0ef98fc97553ef37b7a9e1fe63f7d16096f;p=developers-reference.git diff --git a/resources.dbk b/resources.dbk index fa9cc70..c0351fc 100644 --- a/resources.dbk +++ b/resources.dbk @@ -152,10 +152,8 @@ Since #debian-devel is an open channel, you should not speak there of issues that are discussed in &email-debian-private;. There's another channel for this purpose, it's called #debian-private and it's protected by -a key. This key is available in the archives of debian-private in -master.debian.org:&file-debian-private-archive;, -just zgrep for #debian-private in all -the files. +a key. This key is available at +master.debian.org:&file-debian-private-key;. There are other additional channels dedicated to specific subjects. @@ -275,8 +273,8 @@ reduce unnecessary duplication of effort or wasted processing time. The ftp-master server The &ftp-master-host; server holds the canonical copy of -the Debian archive. Generally, package uploads go to this server; see -. +the Debian archive. Generally, package uploaded to &ftp-upload-host; +end up on this server, see . It is restricted; a mirror is available on merkel. @@ -573,20 +571,34 @@ There are two types of Debian packages, namely source and binary packages. -Source packages consist of either two or three files: a -.dsc file, and either a .tar.gz file -or both an .orig.tar.gz and a -.diff.gz file. +Depending on the format of the source package, it will consist +of one or more files in addition to the mandatory .dsc +file: + +with format “1.0”, it has either a .tar.gz +file or both an .orig.tar.gz and a +.diff.gz file; +with format “3.0 (quilt)”, it has a mandatory +.orig.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} upstream tarball, +multiple optional .orig-component.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} +additional upstream tarballs +and a mandatory debian.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} debian tarball; +with format “3.0 (native)”, it has only +a single .tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} tarball. + -If a package is developed specially for Debian and is not distributed outside -of Debian, there is just one .tar.gz file which contains -the sources of the program. If a package is distributed elsewhere too, the -.orig.tar.gz file stores the so-called upstream -source code, that is the source code that's distributed by the -upstream maintainer (often the author of the software). -In this case, the .diff.gz contains the changes made by -the Debian maintainer. +If a package is developed specially for Debian and is not distributed +outside of Debian, there is just one +.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} file which contains the sources of +the program, it's called a “native” source package. If a package is +distributed elsewhere too, the +.orig.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} file stores the so-called +upstream source code, that is the source code that's +distributed by the upstream maintainer (often the +author of the software). In this case, the .diff.gz +or the debian.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} contains the changes +made by the Debian maintainer. The .dsc file lists all the files in the source package @@ -772,8 +784,9 @@ Every released Debian distribution has a code name: Debian Debian 1.3, bo; Debian 2.0, hamm; Debian 2.1, slink; Debian 2.2, potato; Debian 3.0, woody; Debian 3.1, sarge; -Debian 4.0, etch and Debian 5.0 will be called -lenny. There is also a ``pseudo-distribution'', called +Debian 4.0, etch; Debian 5.0, lenny +and the next release will be called squeeze. +There is also a ``pseudo-distribution'', called sid, which is the current unstable distribution; since packages are moved from unstable to testing as they approach stability, sid @@ -938,7 +951,7 @@ snippet to your configuration file: $delay = ($ENV{DELAY} || 7); $cfg{'delayed'} = { - fqdn => "&ftp-master-host;", + fqdn => "&ftp-upload-host;", login => "yourdebianlogin", incoming => "/org/&ftp-debian-org;/incoming/DELAYED/$delay-day/", dinstall_runs => 1, @@ -971,28 +984,30 @@ a given package at the URL -
-The <command>madison</command> utility +
+The <command>dak ls</command> utility -madison is a command-line utility that is available on -&ftp-master-host;, and on the mirror on -&ftp-master-mirror;. It uses a single argument corresponding -to a package name. In result it displays which version of the package is -available for each architecture and distribution combination. An example will -explain it better. +dak ls is part of the dak suite of tools, listing +available package versions for all known distributions and architectures. +The dak tool is available on &ftp-master-host; +, and on the mirror on &ftp-master-mirror;. +It uses a single argument corresponding to a package name. An example will +explain it better: -$ madison libdbd-mysql-perl -libdbd-mysql-perl | 1.2202-4 | stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc -libdbd-mysql-perl | 1.2216-2 | testing | source, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc -libdbd-mysql-perl | 1.2216-2.0.1 | testing | alpha -libdbd-mysql-perl | 1.2219-1 | unstable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc +$ dak ls evince +evince | 0.1.5-2sarge1 | oldstable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc +evince | 0.4.0-5 | etch-m68k | source, m68k +evince | 0.4.0-5 | stable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc +evince | 2.20.2-1 | testing | source +evince | 2.20.2-1+b1 | testing | alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc +evince | 2.22.2-1 | unstable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc In this example, you can see that the version in unstable differs from the version in testing and that there has -been a binary-only NMU of the package for the alpha architecture. Each version -of the package has been recompiled on most of the architectures. +been a binary-only NMU of the package for all architectures. Each version +of the package has been recompiled on all architectures.
@@ -1073,8 +1088,11 @@ aliases. summary -Regular summary emails about the package's status. Currently, only progression -in testing is sent. +Regular summary emails about the package's status, including progression +into testing, +DEHS notifications of +new upstream versions, and a notification if the package is removed or +orphaned. @@ -1554,6 +1572,14 @@ in .
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