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hultqvist
Asked: 2010-10-25 01:54:55 +0800 CST

Create deb from dvcs-source

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Is there a system in Ubuntu which simplify the process of getting the sources from git, compile and package it into a deb?

I'm looking for something similar to the PKGBUILD in ArchLinux which can be configured with any kind of vcs repo as source and then packaged as that distributions package format.

package-management command-line source-code

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  1. Best Answer

    You might want to have a look at git-buildpackage.

    There are similar tools, one for each VCS:

    $ aptitude search buildpackage
p   arch-buildpackage            - tools for maintaining Debian packages using arch              
v   bzr-buildpackage             -                                                               
p   cvs-buildpackage             - A set of Debian package scripts for CVS source trees.         
p   darcs-buildpackage           - Suite to help with Debian packages in Darcs archives          
p   git-buildpackage             - Suite to help with Debian packages in Git repositories        
p   mercurial-buildpackage       - Suite to maintain Debian packages in Mercurial repository     
p   svn-buildpackage             - helper programs to maintain Debian packages with Subversion   
p   tla-buildpackage             - Suite to help with Debian packages in Arch archives
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