Package software for APT.dyne.org

INCOMPLETE AFTER A NIGHT OF BRAINDAMAGING FAILURES MAKING A PACKAGE THAT USED TO BUILD PERFECT ON UBUNTU 9 and now UBUNTU 11.10 HAS EVERYTHING BROKEN

HATRED, DISGUST and DISMAY

http://apt.dyne.org is our deb package repository serving binary builds for both Debian and Ubuntu systems.

It is operated using reprepro and its skeleton configuration is revisioned on git://code.dyne.org:dyne-apt.git (without the actual binary packages)

The dyne-apt repository also includes scripts to create the special dyne.deb installer which facilitates adding the source for users

It currently includes a package repository for Debian and Ubuntu users. For a complete reference see the Debian New Maintainer guide

Build a package

To build packages we use git-buildpackage and in our software repositories are present the branches debian0 and ubuntu0 (or higher numbers...) ready for its use.

switch to the debian0 (or ubuntu0) branch:

 git co debian0 

use dch to update the debian/changelog (for example to 1.2):

 dch -v 1.2 

Add to Debian

Origin: dyne.org
Codename: dyne
Components: main
Architectures: source i386 amd64

Add to Ubuntu

Origin: dyne.org
Codename: dyne
AlsoAcceptFor: lucid karmic natty oeniric
Components: main
Architectures: source i386 amd64

The Ubuntu repository is fed by PPA which are updated as feeds into our repo, meaning that to build Ubuntu packages you don't need to setup a pbuilder environment, rather than just prepare the package and push it to your PPA to be built, making sure your PPA is added to our dyne-apt.