cvs-autoreleasedeb (1)

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.

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 \*(L"nightily build\*(R" version of the software published automatically. In this case, the config file will be \*(L"/etc/cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf\*(R" 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 \s-1CVS\s0. 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).

- 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: 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

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

This manual page was written by Daniel Ruoso <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.