cvs-inject(1)
NAME
cvs-inject - inject a debian source package into a CVS repository
SYNOPSIS
cvs-inject [options] <package>.dsc
DESCRIPTION
This manual page explains the Debian cvs-inject utility, which is used
to inject or import Debian source packages into a CVS repository. It
handles Debian-only packages (which do not have diff files) as well as
normal packages from upstream sources converted to Debian use.
The upstream sources are imported to the vendor branch and tagged
upstream_version_<upstream version> with all dots translated to under
scores. The debianized sources, if different, are put on the main
branch, and tagged debian_version_<upstream version>-<debian revision>
with all dots translated to under scores.
The sole argument is a debian source .dsc file, which is parsed to get
the package name and version. cvs-inject reads the same config file
/etc/cvsdeb.conf as the the other cvs-* utilities do. People may use
of the dry-run option to inspect the steps this utility takes.
Combined with the companion utilities cvs-buildpackage and cvs-upgrade,
this provides an infrastructure to facilitate the use of CVS by Debian
maintainers. This allows one to keep separate CVS branches of a package
for stable, unstable, and possibly experimental distributions, along
with the other benefits of a version control system.
This utility can be used to generate a unified CVS source tree, for
example, with
find /var/spool/mirror/debian/hamm/hamm/source \
-type f -name \*.dsc | while read i;
do
j=$(dirname $i | sed -e s:source/:: \
-e s:/var/spool/mirror/debian/:: )
cvs-inject -x$j $i
done
Which happily gobbled up the sources and created a CVS repository on my
machine until the partition filled up.
CAVEATS
Please note that the current behaviour of cvs-inject is to ignore files
that match the default list of file name patterns to be ignored (this
is built into cvs); and that any .cvsignore files in the upstream
sources shall be honoured. This should be fine as long as upstream
sources do not include files that match cvs ignore patterns and yet
should be in the sources. The current list of ignored file name
patterns is:
RCS SCCS CVS CVS.adm RCSLOG cvslog.* tags TAGS .make.state
.nse_depinfo *~ #* .#* ,* _$* *$ *.old *.bak *.BAK *.orig *.rej
.del-* *.a *.olb *.o *.obj *.so *.exe *.Z *.elc *.ln core
If you wish to modify this behaviour, there are ways to do this (you
should see CVS documentation).
o) The per-repository list in `$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore' is
appended to the list, if that file exists.
o) The per-user list in `.cvsignore' in your home directory is
appended to the list, if it exists.
o) Any entries in the environment variable $CVSIGNORE is appended
to the list.
In any of the places listed above, a single exclamation mark (`!')
clears the ignore list. This can be used if you want to store any file
which normally is ignored by CVS. Also, any .cvsignore file found in
the source directory is also honoured. If you wish to specify your own
list on the command line, you may use the environment variable
CVSDEB_IMPORTSUBSTMODE (for example, CVSDEB_IMPORTSUBSTMODE="! -I blah
-ko -d ).
OPTIONS
-h Print out a usage message.
-m If present, this option directs this program to
include the latest debian changelog, if any, into
the commit message. This overrides the environment
variable CVSDEB_USE_CHANGELOG
-M<module> The name of the CVS module. This argument overrides
the settings in the environment variable
CVSDEB_MODULE. There is no corresponding config
file variable.
-F There are two things CVS may choke on symbolic
links and CVS directories in the source tree. Also,
there are times when one may not want to honour the
upstream .cvsignore files. Without this option, the
cvs-inject program shall exit with an error
message. This option causes cvs-inject to ask
whether you want to delete the offending files. If
you answer y, it removes them and continues; else
it shall exit with an error message. This argument
overrides the settings in the environment variable
CVSDEB_FORCECLEAN, which in turn overrides the
setting in the configuration file, conf_forceclean.
-T<tag> The CVS tag to use for exporting sources, rather
than constructing one from the version. This
assumes you know what you are doing.
-U<tag> The CVS tag to use for the upstream tag, rather
than constructing one from the upstream version.
This assumes you know what you are doing.
-x<prefix> The name of the default CVS prefix (that is, this
is appended to CVSROOT when looking for the
repository). This argument overrides the settings
in the environment variable CVSDEB_PREFIX, which in
turn overrides the setting in the configuration
file, conf_prefix.
-R<root directory> Root of the original sources archive. If the cvs-
buildpackage work directory is set anywhere,
(command line, configuration file, environment
variable), the root directory value is ignored,
since we only need the root directory to set
defaults for the work directory. This argument
overrides the settings in the environment variable
CVSDEB_ROOTDIR, and the configuration file variable
conf_rootdir. Please note that the cvs-
buildpackage work directory referred to here is the
scratch directory where this program works, not the
directory that the human uses to work in. This
should probably not be a sub dir of CVSROOT, since
cvs shall refuse to export packages there, and the
script shall fail.
-W<work directory> The full path name for the cvs-buildpackage working
directory. Setting this variable overrides the
settings for the root directory. This argument
also overrides the settings in the environment
variable CVSDEB_WORKDIR, and in the configuration
file variable conf_workdir.. Please note that the
cvs-buildpackage work directory referred to here is
the scratch directory where this program works, not
the directory that the human uses to work in, and
needs to be the full (absolute) path name. This
should probably not be a sub dir of CVSROOT, since
cvs shall refuse to export packages there, and the
script shall fail. The default is
/usr/local/src/Packages/
-d<number> Turn on debugging output. This lists the version
numbers, the cvs-buildpackage work and root
directories, as well as the CVS tag used to export
the sources. This over-rides the DEBUG variable in
the configuration file.
-ctp Include package_ at the start of the CVS tag. This
overrides the CVSDEB_PACKAGEINTAG environment
variable and the conf_forcetag configuration file
option. The default is not to include the prefix.
-n The no exec (or dry-run) option, causing cvs-inject
to print out all actions that would be taken
without actually executing them..
-v Make the utility more verbose.
CVSDEB_IMPORTSUBSTMODE
You are also allowed to specify an environment
variable, CVSDEB_IMPORTSUBSTMODE, that overrides
the default substitution option of -ko. This is
useful when you want to import a package that has a
bunch of binary files in the source tree (like
emacs or rscheme).
FILES
Apart from the runtime options, cvs-inject also looks for site-wide defaults in the file /etc/cvsdeb.conf. After that, it looks for and reads ~/.cvsdeb.conf The default configuration allows there to be a site wide override for the root or the cvs-buildpackage working directories on the site, but the cvsdeb.conf files are actually Bourne shell snippets, and any legal shell directives may be included in there. Note: Caution is urged with this file, since you can totally change the way that the script behaves by suitable editing this file.
SEE ALSO
cvs-buildpackage(1), cvs-upgrade(1), cvsdeb.conf(5), cvs(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
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