[gNewSense-users] Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Progress in testing a patched Builder on newer Ubuntu releases!

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:43:35 -0400
Bake Timmons <address@hidden> wrote:

> "Karl Goetz" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, August 30, 2009 04:46, Bake Timmons wrote:
> >> The patch is against svn revision 281 of Builder.
> >
> > Have you done 'clean system' tests with it? (eg, removed all your
> > existing pakages and rebuilt from scratch).
> >
> 
> Yes.

nice.

> >> 5. Handle $MAINTINFO values of the form
> >> 'gNewSense hackers <address@hidden>' .  While I know a
> >> hacky way to get that to work, for now I just use a simple email
> >> address like 'address@hidden' .
> >
> > This should already be handled correctly. Whats wrong?
> >
> 
> The quoting to handle this has been repeatedly revised in SVN
> recently. I simply have not yet gotten it to work.  E.g.,

Yeah, I *ed up.

> dpkg-buildpackage $DPKGOPTS
> 
> will expand to
> 
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -egNewSense hackers
> <address@hidden> \ -mgNewSense hackers
> <address@hidden> -us -uc -ai386
> 
> which is wrong.  The latest revision, 281, expands to this:
> 
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -e$MAINTINFO -m$MAINTINFO -us -uc -ai386"

its specified in config.auto:
 export DPKGOPTS='-rfakeroot -e"$MAINTINFO" -m"$MAINTINFO" \
 -us -uc -ai386';

(the \ linebreak is me stopping the text wrap)

> which is also wrong.  Of course, I might be missing something obvious.

Maybe, depends what you expected.

(trim the rest)
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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