[git-buildpackage] A basic question to begin

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 03:31:47AM -0500, Seamus de Mora wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 1:55 AM Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 05:03:44PM -0500, Seamus de Mora wrote:
> > > gbp:error: 'dget --download-only -q
> > >
> https://mirrors.sjtug.sjtu.edu.cn/raspberrypi/debian/pool/main/d/dhcpcd5/dhcpcd5_8.1.2-1+rpt5.dsc
> '
> > > failed: it exited with 1
> >
> > See `man gbp-imort-dsc`:
> >
> > --allow-unauthenticated
> >               Whether to skip signature verification on
> >               downloads. Passed on verbatim to dget and apt-get
> >               respectively. Use with care.
> 
> Whoops - sorry about that!
> 
> Eventually succeeded with this (thanks!), but a couple of things:
> I.  1st try => 'gbp:error: Git command failed: Error running git branch:
> fatal: A branch named 'master' already exists.'

You likely ran it from a repo with that branch.

>      I still don't understand this error. 'man gbp-import-dsc' says
> '--debian-branch=branch_name...Default is master.'
>     My ~/.gitconfig: 'defaultBranch = main'
> 
> II. I was expecting that the folder name created by 'gbp' would be
> 'dhcpcd5-8.1.2' instead of 'dhcpcd5`. Why is it different from what you get
> when using 'apt-get source dhcpcd5'?

Because it expects that you do further work in that repo so adding a
version number doesn't make much sense.

> FWIW, I experimented with my local .dsc file. 'man gbp-import-dsc' suggests
> usage of a local .dsc as follows:
> 'gbp import-dsc ../hello_2.10-1.dsc'
> Which implied to me that the folder should be created, then descend into it
> before running this command.

this is true when you run it inside an existing repo as it assume you
update. If you run from a outside repo it creates one, that's why the
log says:

gbp:info: No git repository found, creating one.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> But when I did that, it created another folder with the same name; i.e.
> ~/dhcpcd5/dhcpcd5
> From ~/ I did 'gbp import-dsc hello_2.10-1.dsc' - which seems to work
> OK.
> 
> Thanks again for your help!
> ~S