I'm looking for a tool to do the following:
- Automatically detect updates to a set of source packages (specifically gtk+2 and gtk+3)
- download the source package
- apply my own custom patches to the source
- commit the patch properly (
dpkg-source --commit [something-or-other]?) - if successful upload them to a PPA on Launchpad (which I can then point my system to in the usual way).
Can Launchpad do all of that for me?
If not, is there a tool that will automatically do all of that from a cron job?
Failing the above, I'll knock something together myself, but what commands do I need to:
- detect and download the source package updates? (I'd prefer something like (bzr|git) pull rather than having to apt-get source a brand new copy each time)
- auto-commit the patch locally (I'd use the same commit description each time)?
- upload the sources non-interactively to a PPA?
I've found a question ( What is the proper way to patch Wine for a custom PPA? ), which is similar but the steps in the answer are still basically manual and interactive. A completely hands-off version of that plus automatic detection of source updates would help a lot.