I'm thinking of rebuilding the rpm for my Fedora 8 system.
I know how to rebuild/make rpms in general, but if anybody knows about
any significant path or other changes affecting package building for
backupPC 3.2beta relative to 3.1.0 (Holger leaves this as an open
question), then that would be helpful to all regardless of the package
type used.
Holger Parplies wrote at about 04:27:15 +0200 on Thursday, April 23, 2009:
> Hi,
>
> David Lasker wrote on 2009-04-22 10:10:20 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] best
> way to upgrade to and downgrade from 3.2 beta?]:
> > Can you point me to a reference on how to build the package for Ubuntu or
> > Debian? My Google foo is not strong enough to figure this out for myself.
>
> well, as Carl pointed out, you've got the 3.1.0 package as a reference.
>
> apt-get source backuppc
>
> (you'll need something like 'deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian lenny main'
> in /etc/apt/sources.list).
> Have a look at the diff. You'll notice that most of the changes concern
> paths. That means you'd probably need to look through all of the 3.2.0beta0
> code (or a diff 3.1.0 -> 3.2.0beta0) for new paths that might need patching.
> I'll ignore that for the moment and assume the 3.1.0 patch is sufficient
> for creating a working 3.2.0beta0 (which may not be true).
>
> Create an empty directory somewhere to avoid confusion. Download the
> 3.2.0beta0 tarball into this directory. Unpack the tarball. Now, let's do
> some renaming.
>
> mv BackupPC-3.2.0beta0.tar.gz backuppc_3.2.0beta0.orig.tar.gz
> mv BackupPC-3.2.0beta0 backuppc-3.2.0beta0
>
> Now apply the patch.
>
> cd backuppc-3.2.0beta0
> zcat /path/to/backuppc_3.1.0-4.diff.gz | patch -p1
>
> One hunk will fail, but that's irrelevant (tries to change "#!/bin/perl"
> to "#!/usr/bin/perl" in configure.pl, but that's been changed to
> "#!/usr/bin/env perl" anyway). Several hunks are applied with offsets, one
> with a fuzz. Remove the configure.pl.rej (just in case; not sure if the
> package build process minds .rej files).
>
> Next, change the version in the changelog:
>
> dch -i
> (edit the version into 3.2.0beta0-1; add a comment saying
> "New upstream release", for instance).
>
> Then, build the package:
>
> debuild -uc -us
>
>
> You should now have a backuppc_3.2.0beta0-1_all.deb which you can install
> with 'dpkg -i'. If something doesn't work, change the source, increment
> the version and add a changelog entry ('dch -i'), and rebuild the package
> ('debuild -uc -us').
>
> Please note that I may have missed tons of things (environment variable
> DEBEMAIL, ~/.devscripts, ...) and that I have not in any way tested whether
> this package actually works without further patches. If it does, please
> tell us :-).
>
> Regards,
> Holger
>
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