[pkg-go] Building golang-github-google-btree from its git repo

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Monday 19 October 2015 14:27:52 Matthew Dawson wrote:
> I'm a lone student, so I can't really contribute financially.

Of course I don't expect sponsorship from you. :)


> What is needed for a backports effort?

Time, skills, effort and motivation. :)


> > Although Kubernetes packaging is not published yet it is not too bad and
> > will probably need only little work. But packaging all dependencies is a
> > pain...
> 
> Thanks, I'll look into that once I've got etcd working.

Awesome. :)


> It seems gbp doesn't like this repository format by default, as it assume
> the upstream files are available.
>
> [...]
> 
> Does this require building in a chroot?  I'd prefer to avoid that, as I
> already run this in a chroot (in my specific case, Docker).

After hour of fiddling with GBP (so annoying...) I've figured it out.
What is necessary is to add the following to "gbp.conf":

~~~~
[buildpackage]
force-create = True
overlay = True
export-dir = ../build-area/
~~~~

"force-create" is optional -- it forces (re-)creation of tarball on every 
build.
"overlay = True" actually extracts tarball into "export-dir" (so the latter 
should be given together with "overlay").

I pushed updated "debian/gbp.conf" to the repository.

-- 
Regards,
 Dmitry Smirnov.

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morality.
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