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1 = {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-Introduction"/}}Introduction =
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3 About every 2 years Debian introduces a new release.
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5 At the time I'm writing this Debian [[Buster>>url:https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBuster||shape="rect"]] is on it's way from Full Freeze to GA.
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7 The following notes shall provide a step-by-step-plan for adapting the [[PBA Package Builder + Archiver>>doc:PBA.WebHome]] to a new Debian release and shall make it more efficient for the next Debian or maybe Ubuntu release.
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9 = {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-AdaptingpbatonewDebianRelease"/}}Adapting pba to new Debian Release =
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11 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-Preprations"/}}Preprations ===
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13 {{code}}
14 OLDREL=stretch
15 NEWREL=buster
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17 cd ~/sources/pba/trunk/pba
18 svn up ..
19 {{/code}}
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21 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-Adaptionsforphase1,towardsGA"/}}Adaptions for phase 1, towards GA ===
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23 In phase 1 we make the new distribution known in the sense of adding a template for distributions.d/.
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25 {{code}}
26 cat src/etc/pba/distributions.d/${OLDREL} |sed -e "s/${OLDREL}/${NEWREL}/g" >src/etc/pba/distributions.d/${NEWREL}
27 svn add src/etc/pba/distributions.d/${NEWREL}
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29 # evtl. drop ancient ones
30 svn rm src/etc/pba/distributions.d/
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32 ${EDITOR:-vi} debian/changelog debian/rules debian/pba-common.install src/etc/pba/distributions.d/${NEWREL} debian/control
33 # src/etc/pba/builder.conf.template src/lib/build-functions.pl
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35 # commit
36 svn commit -m "Adding support for new Debian distro ${NEWREL}"
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38 # release it
39 pba-release
40 {{/code}}
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42 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-CreatePBA-Buildertarballs"/}}Create PBA-Builder tarballs ===
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44 See eventual separate notes (my [[ITEG's PBA-Tarball Notes>>url:https://confluence.iteg.at/x/l4Kg||shape="rect"]] are not public, sorry).
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46 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-AdaptHelloWorldProjects"/}}Adapt HelloWorld Projects ===
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48 TBD.
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50 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-AdaptFANCYLIBS"/}}Adapt [[doc:FANCYLIBS.WebHome]] ===
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52 TBD.
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54 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-AdaptMinGW"/}}Adapt [[MinGW>>doc:MINGW64.WebHome]] ===
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56 See [[doc:MINGW64.mingw 6 rebuild order.WebHome]].
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58 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-Adaptionsforphase2,oncenewreleaseissettled"/}}Adaptions for phase 2, once new release is settled ===
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60 Once the new Debian release is settled and all VIP libraries and current projects can be built for it, we can declare it the new default value for {{code language="none"}}DefaultDistribution{{/code}} in {{code language="none"}}pba-builder.conf{{/code}}.
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62 {{code}}
63 ${EDITOR:-vi} debian/changelog src/etc/pba/builder.conf.template src/lib/build-functions.pl
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65 # commit
66 svn commit -m "Making new Debian distro ${NEWREL} default for DefaultDistribution in pba-builder.conf"
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68 # release it
69 pba-release
70 {{/code}}