Rebuilding CVS
Recent CVS packages provided by Ubuntu include a patch that changes the format the date is written out as. Apparently, this is to preserve backward compatibility with old hook scripts. We discovered this some time ago, while preparing patches for our releases. The problem manifested itself as the packaged tarball having different diffs against the previous version then the official upgrade patches we provided.
We fixed this by repackaging the CVS package we install on our CVS server. I was reminded of this issue recently, when it became necessary to rebuild the host that we host CVS on...of course, I couldn't find the binary package that I had built, so it became necessary to rebuild it again. The following is a summary of what had to be done in case anyone finds it useful.
mkdir my_cvs cd my_cvs # if not already installed: sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev devscripts #get the cvs source package apt-get source cvs #make sure we can build it apt-get build-dep cvs # unpack the package dpkg-source -x cvs_1.12.13-12ubuntu1.dsc # remove the offending patch rm cvs-1.12.13/debian/patches/67_date_format_option # update the version information/changelog cd cvs-1.12.13 dch -i # rebuild debuild -us -uc
The new package will be located in the my_cvs directory...
