A simple Python script to clone Commotion Wireless repos, and build them into Debian packages.
It reads through a configuration file which specifies repos and branches to build from; and then uses git-buildpackage to turn them into debian packages.
This script is currently written with Debian Jessie as a target.
For Commotion to work, you will need a version of libc6-dev >= 2.18.
For the builder script to work with Python 2.7 you will need to install the python-configparser package.
You will also need git-buildpackage and all of its dependencies; which should cover a bunch of Debian developer tools.
Make all of the changes you need to the config files (described below) and run ./build-commotion
The script references two files, build-commotion.conf and repos.txt.
This file contains all of the information about a repository needed to build a Debian package. The information for each package is a space separated series of values; one package per line. The format is.
(URL of repository) (local work branch) (upstream build branch) (short package name)
Here are a few lines from the current (as of writing) version of the file:
https://github.com/opentechinstitute/olsrd.git commotion commotion olsrd
https://github.com/opentechinstitute/serval-dna.git commotion-wireless commotion-wireless serval-dna
https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-service-manager.git master master commotion-service-manager
NOTE: Right now, the two branch scheme is not implemented properly, and need to match! I plan to change this, but haven't implemented yet. So if you're building from "master," it will be "master master" in ther repost.txt file.
Right now the only configuration options in the configuration file are:
[default]
repos_file = /home/oti/debian/repos.txt
dst = /home/oti/debian
repos_file is the complete system path to the file that has all of the repos and associated information described above.
dst is the directory where a directory named after the time at which the script rant. In that sub-directory, all of the source repos will be cloned, and the finished debs placed.
As an example of how the script works, lets look at a single package, in this case olsrd, as it appears in the example obove.
https://github.com/opentechinstitute/olsrd.git commotion commotion olsrd
The build script first creates a clean directory to work in, this will ensure that you are getting a clean repostory clone, and build environment. Next it will clone https://github.com/opentechinstitute/olsrd.git into olsrd. Then it will run git-buildpackage, plugging in supplied values as it goes. For example the command it runs will look something like:
git-buildpackage -us -uc --git-debian-branch=commotion --git-upstream-tree=branch --git-upstream-branch=commotion --git-ignore-new
Were I to change the line of repos.txt to:
https://github.com/opentechinstitute/olsrd.git local-feature-23 commotion olsrd
The build line will then be.
git-buildpackage -us -uc --git-debian-branch=local-feature-23 --git-upstream-tree=branch --git-upstream-branch=commotion --git-ignore-new
The script repeats this process for every line in repos.txt.