About nixnote2 packtest

The repo nixnote2-packaging is only currently used for the Nixnote2 daily PPA. However, in the absence of any other packages built and available for ubuntu, there are quite a number of users of the PPA - and to them it's a "live" service.

In order develop and test changes to the packaging definitions in the debian control files, we need somewhere safe to try things out. I wanted to fork the main packaging repo, but github won't let you do that. Instead I'm following the suggestion to create a new repo and make this main one it's upstream master.

Create PPA

• Create ('activate') a new PPA
  • https://launchpad.net/~nixnote/+activate-ppa
  • URL: nixnote2-packtest
  • Display name: Package testing - UNSTABLE
  • Description: Testing that the packaging for NixNote2 works properly - do NOT use this PPA unless you are testing code changes in the nixnote2-packaging repo.
  • Activate

Import the code branch

• New Import
  • https://code.launchpad.net/nixnote2/+new-import
  • Owner: nixnote
  • Branch Name: packtest
  • Type: Git
  • URL: https://github.com/artmg/nixnote2-packtest.git
  • Target: Git
  • Request Import

create Recipe

After a few minutes, check the import logs

• Enter newly imported branch / New Recipe
  • https://code.launchpad.net/~nixnote/nixnote2/+git/packtest/+new-recipe
  • Name: nixnote2-packtest
  • Description: Recipe to build packtest
  • Owner: nixnote
  • Built Daily: No
  • PPA: Package testing - UNSTABLE
  • Distros: (accept)
  • Recipe Text:

# git-build-recipe format 0.4 deb-version packtest+{revno:packaging}+{time}
https://git.launchpad.net/~nixnote/nixnote2 master
merge packaging https://git.launchpad.net/~nixnote/nixnote2/+git/packtest master