Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] .deb for ptlib, opal, ekiga yesterday SVN

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

Le samedi 19 avril 2008 à 16:26 +0200, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I have finally managed to create .debs for ptlib, opal, ekiga and start 
> ekiga!!!  They use yesterday SVN.  They are based on Kilian's deb 
> .diff.gz, with modifications for current SVN versions.  I put them at 
> http://eugen.dedu.free.fr/ekiga.

Here is an excellent news!

> To install them, better (IMO) remove before any libpt*, libopal*, ekiga* 
> packages on the machine.
> 
> Manual procedure I used to create the packages, given that .diff.gz are 
> provided:
> svn co https://opalvoip.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/opalvoip/ptlib/trunk 
> ptlib
> svn co https://opalvoip.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/opalvoip/opal/trunk opal
> svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/ekiga/trunk ekiga
> for i in ptlib opal ekiga; do
>    cd $i
>    if [ $i -ne 'ekiga' ]; then svn2cl; fi
>    find . -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \; # <-- don't know if really needed
>    cd ..
>    cp -a $i $i.orig  # <-- allows to create the .diff.gz file
>    cd $i
>    patch -p1 <../$i*.diff.gz  # the .diff.gz are provided
>    debuild -us -uc
>    cd ..
> done
> 
> Of course, the version of packages (e.g. -20080418) should be updated 
> according to the downloading date.
> 
> TODO for deb packages:
> - revisit debian/copyright, seems that some files in ptlib (at least) 
> have specific copyrights
> - revisit debian/templates
> - configure.dpatch in ptlib: is it really needed, Kilian?
> - and others
> 
> Let me know what do you think.

Do you think you will build them regularly or run some sort of cron ?
If it is the case we could resuscitate snapshots.seconix.com with at
least those packs. (I would download them overnight daily from your
box).

> (PS Exactly when all was finished, I executed an rm instead of mv, and I 
> lost the opal*diff.gz file :o(; it took my 2 hours to recreate it.  Do 
> you know that you can recover files simply with # cat 
> /dev/sda3|strings|grep "what you are looking for"?)
> 

Argh, I did not know that tip.

Thanks a lot anyway, you did a great job!
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