missing upstream branch on Alioth

[Markus Koschany]

On 23.04.2015 12:07, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> I can't build the package on Alioth: the "upstream" branch has never
> been pushed.
> 
> ~/drascula $ git-buildpackage -us -uc
> gbp:error: upstream/1.0+ds2 is not a valid treeish
> 
> 
> (the positive side is that git clone went very fast !)

I usually use two patterns with Git. Someone convinced me that for large
upstream tarballs or for games with a lot of binary files the
debian-branch-only method is preferable. As you noticed already cloning
the repository is very fast.

The work flow is quite easy. Just download the original tarball with

apt-get source drascula

and move it to ../tarballs

Then you can use git-buildpackage with the following options (gbp.conf)

[git-buildpackage]
tarball-dir = ../tarballs
export-dir  = ../build-area/

The tool will automatically look in tarballs for upstream tarballs and
the build will happen in build-area.

Markus

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