X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=developers-reference.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=tools.dbk;h=7eeb56704a62541e9322c2bd56ae9748643fd17b;hp=b7728ca09a657d0ea49ec93ebfacc237f67f9bd5;hb=20ea8ac97f9556ff2f9198d393710f413184d4a8;hpb=81c0e6409c7dfef4af519821a76dbfadb7dd4758 diff --git a/tools.dbk b/tools.dbk index b7728ca..7eeb567 100644 --- a/tools.dbk +++ b/tools.dbk @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ exclusion of a competing tool. Most of the descriptions of these packages come from the actual package descriptions themselves. Further information can be found in the package documentation itself. You can also see more info with the command -apt-cache show package-name. +apt-cache show package-name.
Core tools @@ -193,24 +193,6 @@ the package entirely functional and Policy-compliant.
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-<systemitem role="package">yada</systemitem> - -yada is another packaging helper tool. -It uses a debian/packages file to auto-generate -debian/rules and other necessary files in the -debian/ subdirectory. The -debian/packages file contains instruction to build -packages and there is no need to create any Makefile -files. There is possibility to use macro engine similar to the one used in -SPECS files from RPM source packages. - - -For more informations see YADA site. - -
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<systemitem role="package">equivs</systemitem> @@ -230,17 +212,17 @@ packages. The following packages help with the package building process, general driving dpkg-buildpackage as well as handling supporting tasks. -
-<systemitem role="package">cvs-buildpackage</systemitem> +
+<systemitem role="package">git-buildpackage</systemitem> -cvs-buildpackage provides the -capability to inject or import Debian source packages into a CVS repository, -build a Debian package from the CVS repository, and helps in integrating +git-buildpackage provides the +capability to inject or import Debian source packages into a Git repository, +build a Debian package from the Git repository, and helps in integrating upstream changes into the repository. -These utilities provide an infrastructure to facilitate the use of CVS by -Debian maintainers. This allows one to keep separate CVS branches of a package +These utilities provide an infrastructure to facilitate the use of Git by +Debian maintainers. This allows one to keep separate Git branches of a package for stable, unstable and possibly experimental distributions, along with the other benefits of a version control system. @@ -272,9 +254,8 @@ package's build-dependencies are correct, and to be sure that unnecessary and wrong build dependencies will not exist in the resulting package. -A related package is pbuilder-uml, -which goes even further by doing the build within a User Mode Linux -environment. +A related package is cowbuilder, +which speeds up the build process using COW filesystem on any standard Linux filesystem.