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h1. Manually building a distribution package
This is a complete example showing how I created a .deb package of a custom osmo-msc version.
The aim was to distribute a certain patch of osmo-msc without modifying the official Osmocom package feeds.
h2. lxc container
For a clean build base, create a fresh debian 10 (buster) container.
on lxc host:
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lxc-create -t download -n neels-deb10
lxc-start -n neels-deb10
lxc-attach -n neels-deb10
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in neels-deb10 container:
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apt install openssh-server
useradd -m -s /bin/bash neels
cd /home/neels/
mkdir .ssh
cd .ssh/
cat > authorized_keys
# paste my ssh pubkey, hit ctrl-D
cd ..
chown -R neels: .ssh
passwd neels
apt-get install sudo
gpasswd -a neels sudo
apt-get update
apt-get install wget gnupg git tig
wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/osmocom:/nightly/Debian_10/Release.key_
sha256sum Release.key | grep b5e2c1df9ff80bc73dd00a0c153ef308e7ec643ddb859e69789fcd4a9b1893d3
apt-key add Release.key
rm Release.key
cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/osmocom-nightly.list <<END
deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/osmocom:/nightly/Debian_10/ ./
deb-src http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/osmocom:/nightly/Debian_10/ ./
END
apt-get update
apt-get install git-buildpackage libdistro-info-perl
apt-get build-depends osmo-msc
# exit the lcx-attach and log in via ssh
exit
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lxc-ls -f | grep neels-deb10
# neels-deb10 RUNNING 0 - 192.168.111.12, 192.168.111.240 - false
ssh neels@192.168.111.12
# (logged into neels-deb10 container)
git clone git://git.osmocom.org/osmo-msc
cd osmo-msc
# checkout the branch to put in the package
git checkout neels/mncc_codecs2
# update the changelog and commit
gbp dch --debian-tag='%(version)s' --auto --meta --git-author --multimaint-merge --ignore-branch --new-version="1.6.1001"
dch -r -m --distribution "unstable" ""
git add debian/changelog
git commit -m "manual package 1.6.1 --> 1.6.1001"
# to be able to tag a release, we need to sign it.
# Signing may require a bit of a dance to a) get gpg to use the right tty and b) to get a text based pinentry:
sudo apt-get install pinentry-curses
export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
git tag -s 1.6.1001 -f -m "manual package v1.6.1001 on $(date -I)."
# this should show the tag:
git describe
# build the .deb package. packages are put in ../ (i.e. a dir above $CWD == osmo-msc)
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -tc
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