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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}}
20
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}
28
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}"
37
38 # release it
39 pba-release
40 {{/code}}
41
42 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-AdaptHelloWorldProjects"/}}Adapt HelloWorld Projects ===
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44 {{code language="none"}}
45 cd ~/sources/pba/trunk/pba-helloworld
46 svn up ..
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48 PBAO=""
49 # or
50 PBAO='-o unix'
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52 pba-builddeps -i ${PBAO}
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54 #pba-instdeps -i ${PBAO}
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56 pba-build -u -i ${PBAO}
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58 # solve eventual problems
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60 ${EDITOR:-vi} debian/changelog debian/control
61 # or
62 ${EDITOR:-vi} debian-unix/changelog debian-unix/control
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64 pba-syncchangelogs
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66 pba-release -u -b pba-spool/ ${PBAO}
67 sudo pba-builder -B pba-spool -b pba-results ${PBAO} 2>&1 |tee pba-builder.log
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69 # wait for success
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71 sudo rm -rf pba-spool/ pba-results pba-builder.log
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73 svn commit -m "Adding support for new Debian distro ${NEWREL}"
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75 pba-release ${PBAO}
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78 {{/code}}
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80 Repeat for pba-hellolib-portable (with -o unix).
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82 Repeat for pba-hellobigworld-portable (with -o unix).
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84 ... with (% style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;" %){{code language="none"}}-o unix{{/code}}(%%) or later (% style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;" %){{code language="none"}}-o "unix|7"{{/code}}(%%).
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86 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-AdaptFANCYLIBS"/}}Adapt [[doc:FANCYLIBS.WebHome]] ===
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88 See [[confluencePage:page:FANCYLIBS.Adapting FancyLibs to new Debian Release]],
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90 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-Adaptpba-helloworld-portable"/}}Adapt pba-helloworld-portable ===
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92 See above, use -o unix.
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94 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-CreatePBA-Buildertarballs"/}}Create PBA-Builder tarballs ===
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96 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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98 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-AdaptMinGW"/}}Adapt [[MinGW>>doc:MINGW64.WebHome]] ===
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100 See [[doc:MINGW64.mingw 6 rebuild order.WebHome]].
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102 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-Adaptpba-hello*-portable"/}}Adapt pba-hello*-portable ===
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104 See above, with -o "unix|7" instead of "-o unix".
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106 === {{id name="AdaptingPBAtonewDebianRelease-Adaptionsforphase2,oncenewreleaseissettled"/}}Adaptions for phase 2, once new release is settled ===
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108 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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110 {{code}}
111 ${EDITOR:-vi} debian/changelog src/etc/pba/builder.conf.template src/lib/build-functions.pl
112
113 # commit
114 svn commit -m "Making new Debian distro ${NEWREL} default for DefaultDistribution in pba-builder.conf"
115
116 # release it
117 pba-release
118 {{/code}}