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Rebuilding a package
Process to simple repackage a debian package and push it to wmf apt repo.
Example: repackage python-libthumbor
for debian stretch
1. Login to boron.eqiad.wmnet
2. As a user run the following to download python-libthumbor
's source package:
$ apt-get source apt-get source libthumbor=1.3.2-0+wmf1
3. We should now have 3 files and 1 directory in our working directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 user wikidev 15K Jul 6 2016 libthumbor_1.3.2.orig.tar.gz -> source code of the upstream authors -rw-r--r-- 1 user wikidev 1.2K Jul 6 2016 libthumbor_1.3.2-0+wmf1.dsc -> meta file describing which files are around -rw-r--r-- 1 user wikidev 2.4K Jul 6 2016 libthumbor_1.3.2-0+wmf1.debian.tar.xz -> Debian-specific changes drwxr-xr-x 6 user wikidev 4.0K Nov 20 14:11 libthumbor-1.3.2 -> extracted source package
4. In the libthumbor-1.3.2/debian
directory, we may find the following files:
changelog -> records all changes and defines the version of the package compat -> a meta file used for automation of the package build control -> defines the binary package names and their relation to other packages (e.g. files needed to build and run the package) copyright -> decribes the license and the copyright holders docs -> this can be used to declare some files as documentation patches -> a directory of code changes done to the original tarball rules -> defines the package build process source -> a directory defining some details of how the source package is defined watch -> a meta file which contains information where to look for new releases (i.e. where to download a newer source)
5. Go to libthumbor-1.3.2
$ sudo -H bash $ dch -i
6. We should see something like the following:
libthumbor (1.3.2-0+wmf1+stretch1) stretch-wikimedia; urgency=low * Rebuild for stretch -- Effie Mouzeli <effie@wikimedia.org> Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:42:24 +0000 libthumbor (1.3.2-0+wmf1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial release. (Closes: #783577) -- Gilles Dubuc <gilles@wikimedia.org> Thu, 19 May 2016 15:30:16 +0000
TBA