How to package nautilus-dropbox

March 27, 2023 ยท View on GitHub

This is a work-in-progress guide on how to build Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora packages for nautilus-dropbox. It assumes you're building from an Ubuntu 22.10 machine. The individual deb and rpm packages are built inside Docker containers.

  1. Install Docker:

    sudo apt install docker.io

  2. Build the deb and RPM packages. They will build inside Docker containers:

    ./build_packages.sh

  3. (optional) Sign the *.changes files and RPMs (this happens internally in the build system at Dropbox).

    debsign -k FC918B335044912E build/ubuntu/pool/main/*.changes
debsign -k FC918B335044912E build/debian/pool/main/*.changes
rpmsign --addsign --key-id FC918B335044912E build/fedora/pool/*.rpm

  4. Build the deb and yum repos:

    ./build_repos.sh

  5. (optional) Sign the repo files (this happens internally in the build system at Dropbox).

    gpg -abs --digest-algo SHA256 -o build/ubuntu/dists/$DIST/Release.gpg build/ubuntu/dists/$DIST/Release

  6. Update the ChangeLog with all the changes in the release.

  7. Tag the release and push the tag to GitHub.