Ubuntu – How to set version numbers and package file names via dpkg-buildpackge for automated builds on a build server

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Our build server builds ubuntu packages (*.deb) via dpkg-buildpackage. The server checks out the source code via git and runs the build via make <target>. The source directory contains the debian/ subdirectory where the dpkg configuration files are.

I would like to add the internal build counter number to the current package version and further set the package file name but dpkg-buildpackage does not let me control how the resulting package_version_arch.deb looks like. How can I achieve this?

Best Answer

Have a look at git-buildpackage:

Customizing snapshot numbers

If the auto incrementing of the snapshot number doesn't suite you needs you can give any python expression that evaluates to a positive integer to calculate the new snapshot number:
gbp dch -S -a --snapshot-number=1  
gbp dch -S -a --snapshot-number='snapshot + 2'
gbp dch -S -a --snapshot-number='os.popen("git-log --pretty=oneline | wc -l").readlines()[0]'
gbp dch -S -a --snapshot-number=`git-log --pretty=oneline debian/0.3.3 | wc -l`
You can also add the snapshot-number calculation to gbp.conf:
[DEFAULT]
snapshot-number = os.popen("git-log --pretty=oneline | wc -l").readlines()[0]

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I'd suggest something a little different than Flimzy. Take a look at git-import-dsc and possibly git-debimport. They will auto-magically create separate upstream, debian, and prinstine-tar branches from at Debian source package. You could then create your own branch for your patch set. Each time a new upload to Ubuntu is made, you can just run git-import-dsc on the new package and merge with your branch.

Even simpler would be to use bzr if you are not wed to git. Each Ubuntu package can also be found in a bzr branch. bzr branch ubuntu:$PACKAGE_NAME will grab the source branch for you. Make your changes and commit. Then when ever a new Ubuntu upload is made, you can simply run bzr merge-package ubuntu:$PACKAGE_NAME

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You're looking for override_dh_build-indep From the manpage for the dh command Manpage icon

OVERRIDE TARGETS
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       any step in a sequence, by defining an override target.

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Regarding the Policy bit... A build-indep target is being called, just not your build-indep target.

Best Answer

Customizing snapshot numbers

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