cvs-autoreleasedeb(1) [debian man page]

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NAME

       cvs-autoreleasedeb - Automatic Release of debian packages from CVS

DESCRIPTION

       This script generates and uploads the debian package for cvs modules managed by cvs-buildpackage.

       cvs-autoreleasedeb will maintain a state file of all the packages you want to be automatically published, and every time you commit the
       debian/changelog file of your package, changing the debian version to a greater value, it will be published.

       All the parameters to the script are configured in the conffile. There is no command-line switch. See cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf(5) for more
       information.

USING

       There are two ways of using this script:

       1) Run as user cvs-autoreleasedeb in cron. This is very useful for software houses that want to have the "nightily build" version of the
       software published automatically.  In this case, the config file will be "/etc/cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf" and it will use
       /var/lib/cvs-autoreleasedeb/ as scratch dir.

	 NOTE: edit /etc/default/cvs-autoreleasedeb to control this behavior
	 NOTE 2: all output will be thrown in /var/log/cvs-autoreleasedeb/run.log

       2) Run as yourself, it will automatizate the work you will have if you have your packages in CVS.  In this case, the config file will be
       $HOME/.cvs-autoreleasedeb/conf and the scratch dir will be $HOME/.cvs-autoreleasedeb.  cvs-autoreleasedeb will not create defaults, you
       must have the configuration file created before running cvs-autoreleasedeb. See cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf(5).

TODO

	- Use a snapshot of the time of the commit in
	  the changelog to checkout the source
	- Localize the messages.
	- Work with other than all lowercase in conffile.
	- Use a better format for conffile.

_EXIT CODES
	_exit codes:
	0 = Clean _exit
	1 = Config file not found
	2 = No packages in config file
	3 = Couldn't open the state file
	4 = Couldn't open the state file for writing
	5 = Couldn't determine architecture

SEE ALSO

       cvs-buildpackage(1), cvs(1), cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf(5), dupload(1)

AUTHOR

       This  manual page was written by Daniel Ruoso <daniel@ruoso.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

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CVS-DEBUILD(1)						      General Commands Manual						    CVS-DEBUILD(1)

NAME

       cvs-debuild - build a Debian package using cvs-buildpackage and debuild

SYNOPSIS

       cvs-debuild [debuild options] [cvs-buildpackage options] [--lintian-opts lintian options]

DESCRIPTION

       cvs-debuild  is	a  wrapper  around cvs-buildpackage to run it with debuild as the package-building program.  (This cannot simply be accom-
       plished using the -C option of cvs-buildpackage, as it does not know how to handle all of the special debuild options.)

       The program simply stashes the debuild and lintian options, and passes them to debuild when it is called by cvs-buildpackage.  All  of  the
       standard debuild options may be used (as listed below), but note that the root command specified by any --rootcmd or -r command-line option
       will be passed as an option to cvs-buildpackage.  The first non-debuild option detected will  signal  the  start  of  the  cvs-buildpackage
       options.

       The  selection  of  the	root  command is slightly subtle: if there are any command-line options, these will be used.  If not, then if cvs-
       buildpackage is set up to use a default root command, that will be used.  Finally, if neither of these are the case, then debuild will  use
       its procedures to determine an appropriate command, as described in its documentation.

       See the manpages for debuild(1) and cvs-buildpackage for more information about the behaviour of each.

OPTIONS

       The  following are the debuild options recognised by cvs-debuild.  All cvs-buildpackage and lintian options are simply passed to the appro-
       priate program.	For explanations of the meanings of these variables, see debuild(1).

       --no-conf, --noconf

       --rootcmd=gain-root-command, -rgain-root-command

       --preserve-env

       --preserve-envvar=var, -evar

       --set-envvar=var=value, -evar=value

       --lintian, --no-lintian

       --ignore-dirname, --check-dirname
	      These should not be needed, but it is provided nevertheless.

SEE ALSO

       cvs-buildpackage(1), debuild(1), dpkg-buildpackage(1) and lintian(1).

AUTHOR

       This program was written by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.

DEBIAN
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