# For preparing GRASS Debian package you should download the packaging
# rules from DebianGIS's git repository, then use the Debian build scripts
# to construct the .deb files.

# Make sure git and the debian build scripts are installed:
  sudo apt-get install git-core devscripts subversion


# and download the latest svn copy of GRASS:
  cd src/grass/
  svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk g7_trunk

# From the grass source dir download the packaging rules (the contents
#  of debiangis/grass/ can be ignored, only the debian/ dir is needed):
  git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass/grass.git debiangis
  ln -s debiangis/grass/debian debian


# If you haven't built GRASS from source on this machine before, you'll
# have to install a bunch of -dev packages. Look at the debian/control
# file and install the packages on the "Build-depends" lines.

  sudo apt-get install flex bison libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev # ... etc.

# You can take care of this pretty much automatically with:

 sudo apt-get build-dep grass


# In your favorite text editor open debian/changelog and adjust the
# version number on the top line to reflect the GRASS SVN checkout number.
# e.g. for r50539: grass (7.0+svn50539-0) unstable; urgency=low

  nano debian/changelog


# After that, you can build the current version of GRASS with
  cd g7_trunk
  ln -s ../debian .

  svn up

  debuild -i -uc -us -b

# run from the main GRASS source directory. After the packages are
# generated, you can install them with:

  sudo dpkg -i ../grass*.deb

# (make sure to move away older grass*.deb files first)


# to try again, first clean out the old build by running:
#  (from the main source dir)

  debuild clean

# then repeat the build process



FIXME: how to download just the grass/debian/ directory from git
       and not the whole thing?


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H.Bowman
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