[v7] builddeb: Try to determine distribution

Commit Message

Sedat Dilek Jan. 6, 2015, 1:35 p.m. UTC

lsb_release command is a good choice to determine the distribution
name for the changelog file in the generated Debian packages [1].
Its installation is no precondition.
In Debian it is still not essential or build-essential.

Ben gave some helpful informations and detailed explanations in [2].
There he also suggested to have an option to explicitly set the
distribution name (see $KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST variable).

Embedded the improvement as suggested by Thorsten (see [3]):

"This is suboptimal: if KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST is defined,
lsb_release is not necessary. The following snippet
also omits using its output if it fails but still
produces any:"

Dealing with this issue I learned about "The Colon in the Shell." and
possible pitfalls in this area (see [4,5]). Furthermore, refreshed my
knowledge about redirecting outputs with the echo command (see [6]).
Special thanks to Thorsten, I enjoyed the IRC session with you.

Cooked together the snippets of Ben and Thorsten (see [2,3]).
Tested against Linux v3.19-rc2.

Thanks goes to Alexander, Ben, maximilian and Thorsten for the very
vital help.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/516
[2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=142022188322321&w=2
[3] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=142023476825460&w=2
[4] http://blog.brlink.eu/index.html#i70
[5] https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20141209-tg.htm
[6] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23489934/echo-2-some-text-what-does-it-mean-in-shell-scripting

CC: Ben Hutchings <[e-mail]>
CC: maximilian attems <[e-mail]>
CC: Thorsten Glaser <[e-mail]>
CC: Alexander Wirt <[e-mail]>
CC: Michal Marek <[e-mail]>
CC: [e-mail]
Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <[e-mail]>
Suggested-by: Thorsten Glaser <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <[e-mail]>
[ dileks: Thorsten reviewed his suggested diff in RFC v4 ]
Reviewed-by: Thorsten Glaser <[e-mail]>
Acked-by: maximilian attems <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <[e-mail]>
---
v7: Correct Thorsten's email-address in the Reviewed-by line
    Correct reference to URL [6] and fix some more typos
v6: Based on RFC v5 with added reviews and acks
v5: Improve commit-message and fix Thorsten's email-address
v4: Embed improvements suggested by Thorsten
v3: Massaged the commit-message
v2: Suppress error messages when lsb_release is not installed
    (Thanks maximilian and Ben)

 scripts/package/builddeb | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch

diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
index 5972624..f631c77 100755
--- a/scripts/package/builddeb
+++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
@@ -217,9 +217,20 @@  else
 fi
 maintainer="$name <$email>"
 
+# Try to determine distribution
+if [ -n "$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST" ]; then
+        distribution=$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST
+elif distribution=$(lsb_release -cs 2>/dev/null) && [ -n "$distribution" ]; then
+        : # nothing to do in this case
+else
+        distribution="unstable"
+        echo >&2 "Using default distribution of 'unstable' in the changelog"
+        echo >&2 "Install lsb-release or set \$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST explicitly"
+fi
+
 # Generate a simple changelog template
 cat <<EOF > debian/changelog
-linux-upstream ($packageversion) unstable; urgency=low
+linux-upstream ($packageversion) $distribution; urgency=low
 
   * Custom built Linux kernel.