git-debrebase: break out rm_subdir_cached (nfc)

[dgit.git] / dgit-user.7.pod

diff --git a/dgit-user.7.pod b/dgit-user.7.pod
index ad0cca1da867e3bd19623f0e942723170136627d..c74396a56954d2ff176c2032cb022b1d71447921 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit-user.7.pod
+++ b/dgit-user.7.pod
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ or L<dgit(1)> and L<dgit(7)>.
 
     % dgit clone glibc jessie,-security
     % cd glibc
-    % wget 'https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=28250;mbox=yes;msg=89' | patch -p1 -u
+    % curl 'https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=28250;mbox=yes;msg=89' | patch -p1 -u
     % git commit -a -m 'Fix libc lost output bug'
     % gbp dch -S --since=dgit/dgit/sid --ignore-branch --commit
-    % sudo apt-get build-dep glibc
+    % mk-build-deps --root-cmd=sudo --install
     % dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b
     % sudo dpkg -i ../libc6_*.deb
 
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ or upstream's git history.
 But for many packages the real git history
 does not exist,
 or has not been published in a dgitish form.
-So yuu may find that the history is a rather short
+So you may find that the history is a rather short
 history invented by dgit.
 
 dgit histories often contain automatically-generated commits,
@@ -232,9 +232,9 @@ that are in debian/patches before you do anything else!
 
 Debian package builds are often quite messy:
 they may modify files which are also committed to git,
-or leave outputs and teporary files not covered by C<.gitignore>.
+or leave outputs and temporary files not covered by C<.gitignore>.
 
-Kf you always commit,
+If you always commit,
 you can use
 
 =over 4
@@ -288,21 +288,37 @@ a complete treatment is beyond the scope of this tutorial.
 
 =over 4
 
-    % sudo apt-get build-dep glibc
+    % mk-build-deps --root-cmd=sudo --install
     % dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b
 
 =back
 
-apt-get build-dep installs the build dependencies according to the
-official package, not your modified one.  So if you've changed the
-build dependencies you might have to install some of them by hand.
-
 dpkg-buildpackage is the primary tool for building a Debian source
 package.
 C<-uc> means not to pgp-sign the results.
 C<-b> means build all binary packages,
 but not to build a source package.
 
+=head2 Using sbuild
+
+You can build in an schroot chroot, with sbuild, instead of in your
+main environment.  (sbuild is used by the Debian build daemons.)
+
+=over 4
+
+    % git clean -xdf
+    % sbuild -c jessie -A --no-clean-source \
+             --dpkg-source-opts='-Zgzip -z1 --format=1.0 -sn'
+
+=back
+
+Note that this will seem to leave a "source package"
+(.dsc and .tar.gz)
+in the parent directory,
+but that source package should not be used.
+It is likely to be broken.
+For more information see Debian bug #868527.
+
 =head1 INSTALLING
 
 =head2 Debian Jessie or older
@@ -349,7 +365,7 @@ The proper solution
 is to build the package for all the architectures you
 have enabled.
 You'll need a chroot for each of the secondary architectures.
-This iw somewhat tiresome,
+This is somewhat tiresome,
 even though Debian has excellent tools for managing chroots.
 C<sbuild-createchroot> from the sbuild package is a
 good starting point.
@@ -362,9 +378,9 @@ If neither of those are an option,
 your desperate last resort is to try
 using the same version number
 as the official package for your own package.
-(The verseion is controlled by C<debian/changelog> - see above,)
+(The version is controlled by C<debian/changelog> - see above).
 This is not ideal because it makes it hard to tell what is installed,
-because it will mislead and confuse apt.
+and because it will mislead and confuse apt.
 
 With the "same number" approach you may still get errors like