kk-debuilder

Packaging tool suite

This tool is one of four that I use in my git-buildpackage-based workflow for creating, forking, and maintaining Debian (.deb) packages. These tools were written for personal use and most definitely have rough edges. Please let me know if you have trouble! The four are

• kk-debuilder
• docker-debuild
• my git-buildpackage fork
• apt-config-tool, and

Overview

kk-debuilder is a workflow tool that wraps both docker-debuild and my fork of git-buildpackage. It lets you build packages for several Ubuntu distributions from a single git-buildpackage-style source repository. Containers are used to sandbox each build and to make cross-distribution builds easy.

Usage examples

# The arguments '--upstream-branch=upstream --debian-branch=master' are left out since those are the default values.
# This will produce binary packages, ready to install.
$ kk-debuilder --target wily
# This will produce source packages, ready to sign and upload to Launchpad.
$ kk-debuilder --target wily --source-only
# Why stop with just one distribution?
$ kk-debuilder --all-supported

Features

• Through docker-debuild, automatic detection of (and use of) your caching apt proxy.

• Flexible selection of target distributions (see --help for details).

Tips

• Some packages have extensive check suites. Try --no-check to avoid the delay while troubleshooting.

• You must have built docker-debuild images for each target distribution. See the build.sh script distributed with that tool.

kk-debuilder-changelog-rewriter

The debian/changelog file must include the name of the distribution that the package is for (e.g. wily, vivid, trusty, ...). This is a problem if we would like to build packages from the same repository for several distributions of Ubuntu.

Just leave the changelog distribution UNRELEASED, and do not add a distribution-specific suffix to the package's version number. kk-debuilder will use the changelog rewriter to automatically turn entries like

compton (0.1~beta3~1.git0e0b35a-kk1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium

into

compton (0.1~beta3~1.git0e0b35a-kk1+15.10) wily; urgency=medium
compton (0.1~beta3~1.git0e0b35a-kk1+15.04) vivid; urgency=medium
...

TODO

• It'd be nice to also support Debian suite names (instead of only Ubuntu ones).