Packaging process

Packaging process

Prerequises

• Ubuntu >= 14.04
• sudo apt-get devscripts dput

Packaging

• Download latest sources:

• FreeFileSync: http://www.freefilesync.org/download.php

• ZenXML: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zenxml/

• Convert zip to tar.xz

• unzip FFS into freefilesync_$VERSION

• unzip ZenXML into zenXml

• copy zenXml/zenxml into freefilesync_$VERSION

• tar -Jcf freefilesync_$VERSION.orig.tar.xz freefilesync_$VERSION

• Go to packaging folder

• Extract .xz

• Go to $SRC_PKG

• Checkout git branch ubuntu-wily

• Edit $SRC_PKG/debian/changelog if necessary

• Copy $SRC_PKG/debian to freefilesync_$VERSION

• Go to freefilesync_$VERSION folder

• Copy $SRC_PKG/debian to current folder

• Build upload request with debuild -S -sa --source-option=--include-binaries

• cd ..

• Upload to PPA: dput ppa:freefilesync/ffs freefilesync_$VERSION-0ubuntu1~wily_source.changes