[Pkg-gridengine-devel] SGE on Debian Unstable

[Dave Love]

Laszlo Kajan <lkajan at rostlab.org> writes:

> Hello Dave!
>
>>>> I was assuming only the packaging would be maintained there, producing a
>>>> debian.tar.gz which would just work with the sge distribution tarball.
>>>> Why does it need the whole tree there?
>>>
>>> This is the standard work-flow when using git for packaging (as opposed
>>> to when using subversion).  
>> 
>> Is this stuff documented somewhere?
>
> So, yes, I wanted to prepare a wiki page we all can contribute to, on git usage, and package building: [1].
>
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/GridenginePackaging/GitGuide

I still don't understand why the whole source needs to be in the repo,
but never mind.  I added a watch file already.  I won't have a chance to
try to understand the git stuff immediately.

Why do built files (template, at least) need to go in the repo?

At some stage I'll try to make packaging that can be configured as an
add-on package to install into /opt or as the actual Debian packages.  I
assume there aren't useful examples of that.