[git-buildpackage] Fwd: A basic question to begin

[Seamus de Mora]

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From: Seamus de Mora <seamusdemora at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 2, 2022 at 5:10 AM
Subject: Re: [git-buildpackage] A basic question to begin
To: Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org>


On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 2:22 AM Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>


> As Raspian is based on Debian did you try to contribute your patch to
> Debian? According to
>
>    https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dhcpcd5.html
>
> The current git repo for that packaging is at
>
>    https://salsa.debian.org/smlx-guest/dhcpcd5
>
>
I submitted it here
<https://salsa.debian.org/seamusdemora/dhcpcd5/-/commit/a992b9daf156c40b3d2e8e4e314b8a028aa03778>,
but it's not been acted upon. I should also say that I may have screwed
this up! I wanted the 'commit request' to be applied against the 'dhcpcd
version 8.1.2', but instead it went against 'sid'. It gets very confusing
here (to me at least) because as I learned, ver 8.1.2 is not actually in
the Debian repo. Someone in the RPi organization told me that they had
decided to use a different version, but provided no explanation. Perhaps
because the repo in 'salsa' is not being maintained by anyone? I don't know
- that's a guess. But what I do know is that RPi has been using 8.1.2 since
25 Oct 2019 according to the 'changelog'. However, that date doesn't quite
track with the release date for 8.1.2 posted on the upstream repo
<https://roy.marples.name/archives/dhcpcd-discuss/0002678.html>. Don't know
if that's relevant or not, but mention it just in case.

Further confusing (again - to me) when the '.dsc' file is reviewed as it
references the 'salsa' repo which does not contain the 8.1.2 version. I've
attached it here FYI.


> Can you post how you invoke the command and the full error message?


I may have covered my tracks when I began thrashing about trying to address
the error messages. I'll 'rm' the directory that was created, and start
over - so you won't "miss anything". lol :)

First - here are the files & folders created after I installed the RPi
source package via '*apt-get source dhcpcd5*' :




*drwxr-xr-x 9 pi   pi     4096 Apr 27 06:40 dhcpcd5-8.1.2-rw-r--r-- 1 pi
pi    12216 Jan 17 08:29 dhcpcd5_8.1.2-1+rpt5.debian.tar.xz-rw-r--r-- 1 pi
  pi     1075 Jan 17 08:29 dhcpcd5_8.1.2-1+rpt5.dsc-rw-r--r-- 1 pi   pi
228736 Nov 18  2019 dhcpcd5_8.1.2.orig.tar.xz *

Starting "from scratch" after '*rm -rf dhcpcd5*':



*pi at raspberrypi3b:~ $ gbp import-dsc dhcpcd5_8.1.2-1+rpt5.dscgbp:info: No
git repository found, creating one.gbp:error: Git command failed: Error
running git branch: fatal: A branch named 'master' already exists.*

Eventually concluded this error was a red herring (?), and tried this:








*pi at raspberrypi3b:~ $ cd dhcpcd5pi at raspberrypi3b:~/dhcpcd5 $ gbp import-dsc
../dhcpcd5_8.1.2-1+rpt5.dscgbp:error:Repository does not have branch
'upstream' for upstream sources. If there is none
seefile:///usr/share/doc/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.html#GBP.IMPORT.CONVERTon
howto create it otherwise use --upstream-branch to specify it.Also check
the --create-missing-branches option.*

This is where I wondered if the .dsc file was creating an issue. Seems to
me the correct upstream sources are only available from this tarball
<https://roy.marples.name/downloads/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-8.1.2.tar.xz>. There is a ver
8 branch <https://github.com/NetworkConfiguration/dhcpcd/tree/dhcpcd-8> in
Roy's repo, but '8.1.2' is only a tag. In any case, I felt I was spinning
my wheels, as it was not clear to me that I'd done anything correctly so
far, and had no clear ideas on resolving the missing upstream error. This
is the point I reached out for help.

>
> yes, I hope we can help,
>  -- Guido


I hope so, too!

~S
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