Re: packaging question regarding the watch file

Like I said I am probably over thinking. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 11, 2016, at 4:00 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 01:24:26AM -0700, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote: Let me try to clarify. Did my package use the code from upstream or the

Re: packaging question regarding the watch file

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 01:24:26AM -0700, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote: > > > Let me try to clarify. Did my package use the code from upstream or the > > > code from the watch file to build. > > > > Please read how gbp works. > > gbp uses the version from d/changelog to find the upstream tag which

Re: packaging question regarding the watch file

On Sunday, December 11, 2016 1:20:05 PM MST Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 01:16:21AM -0700, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote: > > Let me try to clarify. Did my package use the code from upstream or the > > code from the watch file to build. > > Please read how gbp works. > gbp

Re: packaging question regarding the watch file

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 01:16:21AM -0700, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote: > Let me try to clarify. Did my package use the code from upstream or the code > from the watch file to build. Please read how gbp works. gbp uses the version from d/changelog to find the upstream tag which it then uses to

Re: packaging question regarding the watch file

On Sunday, December 11, 2016 12:57:40 PM MST Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:04:30PM -0700, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote: > > I have a question regarding packaging using git and the watch file in the > > Debian directory. There is an open bug 794438 for the KDE Partition > >

Re: packaging question regarding the watch file

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:04:30PM -0700, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote: > I have a question regarding packaging using git and the watch file in the > Debian directory. There is an open bug 794438 for the KDE Partition Manager. > The current package is broken in Sid. In the thread it was mentioned

packaging question regarding the watch file

Dear Mentors, I have a question regarding packaging using git and the watch file in the Debian directory. There is an open bug 794438 for the KDE Partition Manager. The current package is broken in Sid. In the thread it was mentioned that the KDE Neon has a working package. When I pulled the

Shared library packaging question

Dear specialists, I need more help. Specifically, I am going to ask 3 questions. My debian directory is still messed up, as it has been from the beginning: either the automatic scripts are not ready to assist in generating a shared-library package, or I used them in wrong way. Here my control

RE: Shared library packaging question

One more question (which possibly elucidates my previous questions): The upstream project is structured as follows: lmfit/configure.ac lmfit/Makefile.am # ... and all the resulting autotools stuff lmfit/lib/ # contains library sources and the include file lmmin.h lmfit/demo/ # contains

Re: Shared library packaging question

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:35:42PM +0100, Wuttke, Joachim wrote: Dear specialists, I need more help. Specifically, I am going to ask 3 questions. My debian directory is still messed up, as it has been from the beginning: either the automatic scripts are not ready to assist in generating a

Re: Shared library packaging question

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:57:03PM +0100, Wuttke, Joachim wrote: One more question (which possibly elucidates my previous questions): The upstream project is structured as follows: lmfit/configure.ac lmfit/Makefile.am # ... and all the resulting autotools stuff lmfit/lib/ # contains

RE: Shared library packaging question

Thank you, Stanislav, for your helpful explanations. Regarding the name of the package: For many years the upstream project has been called lmfit (since the main application is curve fitting), but the shared library has been called lmmin.so (since the fundamental mathematical operation is

Re: Shared library packaging question

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 08:24:05PM +0100, Wuttke, Joachim wrote: Thank you, Stanislav, for your helpful explanations. Regarding the name of the package: For many years the upstream project has been called lmfit (since the main application is curve fitting), but the shared library has been

Packaging question

If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask the question :) I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. If I install an earlier version, my package won't show up as an update. It's the first time this has happened. I believe I know why it

Re: Packaging question

On 15/09/2007, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask the question :) So what do I need to do to make my package be seen as an update? First of all, I would ask you why you have 1: in the package version. Usually that's added

Re: Packaging question

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:20:29PM -0400, Peter wrote: If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask the question :) I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. If I install an earlier version, my package won't show up as an update. It's

Re: Packaging question

Matthew Palmer wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:20:29PM -0400, Peter wrote: If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask the question :) I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. If I install an earlier version, my package won't show

Re: Packaging question

On September 15, 2007 07:20:29 pm Peter wrote: If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask the question :) I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. If I install an earlier version, my package won't show up as an update. It's the first

Re: general packaging question

Ritesh Raj Sarraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've package knetstats for Debian. Currently I ran dh_make and did the packaging. dh_make created the debian/ subfolder and I did the necessary changes to build the package. All is fine till here. My question is: Currently knentstats is at

Re: general packaging question

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:00:40PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Hi, Hello, My question is: Currently knentstats is at version 1.6.1. How would I repackage knetstats when version 1.6.2 is released ? There are several ways. Personally, I just get the new upstream tarball, unpack it,

Re: general packaging question

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006, Frank Küster wrote: How would I then add entry of the old changelog into the current knetstats package i.e. 1.6.2 ? If the diff.gz contains only files in the debian directory (i.e. your changes are organized in patches, or you don't have source changes), then you can

Re: general packaging question

On 2006-11-14, Ritesh Raj Sarraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I then add entry of the old changelog into the current knetstats package i.e. 1.6.2 ? I hope there is a proper way to tackle such situations. apt-get install devscripts man uupdate it does exactly what you ask for. /Sune

general packaging question

Hi, I've package knetstats for Debian. Currently I ran dh_make and did the packaging. dh_make created the debian/ subfolder and I did the necessary changes to build the package. All is fine till here. My question is: Currently knentstats is at version 1.6.1. How would I repackage knetstats when

n00b lib packaging question

Hello, I am trying to create packages from sources for libpcap compiled with the libpfring library. This compiles no problem. When I am packaging though... there are the issues coming up Wink # fakeroot debian/rules clean # debian/rules build # debian/rules binary till now it's ok i have 2

RE: n00b lib packaging question

Am Dienstag, den 29.08.2006, 12:44 -0400 schrieb Jean-Sebastien Pilon: I am trying to create packages from sources for libpcap compiled with the libpfring library. This compiles no problem. When I am packaging though... there are the issues coming up Wink # fakeroot debian/rules

RE: n00b lib packaging question

Am Dienstag, den 29.08.2006, 15:54 -0400 schrieb Jean-Sebastien Pilon: [..] What's inside libpcap-ring1.install and libpcap-ring-dev.install? You need to copy the files from debian/tmp to debian/$package # cat debian/libpcap-ring1.install usr/local/lib/lib*.so.* # cat

Packaging question (synopsis and its libraries)

Hi, I am currently adopting synopsis, a source code documentation tool specially suited for python, but also useable for C and C++. I created a first package from the new upstream version which is available at http://www.littletux.net/debian. The package is not yet lintian clean, and this leads

Re: Packaging question (synopsis and its libraries)

See my recent message to -mentors and -devel, Nonpublic shared libraries. It sees that rpath could be used here because it is a private library, not used by other packages. In the future, if that changes, it will have to have a soname. For now, you could also just install to

Debian Packaging Question

Hi all, I have upgraded the automake to 1.7.9 and that took care of some the errors but when i try to generate the Makefile through the configure command it gives me an error saying saying that the script file is not found which is mainboard.py . Which i think due to a path that it did not

Debian Packaging Question

hi all , I have read the debian Maintainers' Guide for Creating debian Packages and i was following it for creation of the package and then when i run dh_make according to the instructions i get errors related to the Makefile that i have modified as i am trying to install a script and get

Re: Debian Packaging Question

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:33:44PM -0600, Amr Nasr wrote: hi all , I have read the debian Maintainers' Guide for Creating debian Packages and i was following it for creation of the package and then when i run *dh_make* according to the instructions i get errors related to the Makefile that i have

Re: Debian Packaging Question

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:33:44 -0600 Amr Nasr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makefile:18: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?). Stop. objective: dependencies rules These separators *must* be one tab keypress, not spaces. All of them. Maybe your editor has

Debian Packaging Question

hi all , I have read the debian Maintainers' Guide for Creating debian Packages and i was following it for creation of the package and then when i run dh_make according to the instructions i get errors related to the Makefile that i have modified as i am trying to install a script and get

Re: Debian Packaging Question

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:33:44PM -0600, Amr Nasr wrote: hi all , I have read the debian Maintainers' Guide for Creating debian Packages and i was following it for creation of the package and then when i run *dh_make* according to the instructions i get errors related to the Makefile that i have

Re: Debian Packaging Question

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:33:44 -0600 Amr Nasr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makefile:18: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?). Stop. objective: dependencies rules These separators *must* be one tab keypress, not spaces. All of them. Maybe your editor has

Re: simple cron packaging question

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:42:50AM -0700, Josh Lauricha wrote: On Thu 08/05/04 17:35, Brian Sutherland wrote: Make sure that if the package is uninstalled, the cron job is disabled? I'd do something like: # a bunch of lines for setting the command-line options or sourceing #

Re: simple cron packaging question

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:42:50AM -0700, Josh Lauricha wrote: On Thu 08/05/04 17:35, Brian Sutherland wrote: Make sure that if the package is uninstalled, the cron job is disabled? I'd do something like: # a bunch of lines for setting the command-line options or sourceing #

simple cron packaging question

As my first foray into debian packaging, I want to create a package that installs a cron job to be run daily. My approach is to install a simple script into /etc/cron.daily/ that calls a more complex script which I install into /usr/bin/. Will this be compliant with the FHS? Make sure that if

Re: simple cron packaging question

You are correct; see [1]. Make sure it checks for the existence of all files it needs. Cheers, -- Justin aptitude install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor x11iraf wcstools pyraf http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/ References [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.5

Re: simple cron packaging question

On Thu 08/05/04 17:35, Brian Sutherland wrote: As my first foray into debian packaging, I want to create a package that installs a cron job to be run daily. My approach is to install a simple script into /etc/cron.daily/ that calls a more complex script which I install into /usr/bin/.

Re: simple cron packaging question

On 2004-08-05 Brian Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As my first foray into debian packaging, I want to create a package that installs a cron job to be run daily. My approach is to install a simple script into /etc/cron.daily/ that calls a more complex script which I install into

Re: simple cron packaging question

Im stunned. Three answers in under an hour. Thanks world. -- Brian Sutherland There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking. -- Derek Zoolander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

simple cron packaging question

As my first foray into debian packaging, I want to create a package that installs a cron job to be run daily. My approach is to install a simple script into /etc/cron.daily/ that calls a more complex script which I install into /usr/bin/. Will this be compliant with the FHS? Make sure that if

Re: simple cron packaging question

You are correct; see [1]. Make sure it checks for the existence of all files it needs. Cheers, -- Justin aptitude install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor x11iraf wcstools pyraf http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/ References [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.5

Re: simple cron packaging question

On Thu 08/05/04 17:35, Brian Sutherland wrote: As my first foray into debian packaging, I want to create a package that installs a cron job to be run daily. My approach is to install a simple script into /etc/cron.daily/ that calls a more complex script which I install into /usr/bin/.

Re: simple cron packaging question

On 2004-08-05 Brian Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As my first foray into debian packaging, I want to create a package that installs a cron job to be run daily. My approach is to install a simple script into /etc/cron.daily/ that calls a more complex script which I install into

Re: simple cron packaging question

Im stunned. Three answers in under an hour. Thanks world. -- Brian Sutherland There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking. -- Derek Zoolander

Packaging question

Is it possible to make some files installed by 'make install' excluded from deb package??? -- Dan Korostelev [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Packaging question

Is it possible to make some files installed by 'make install' excluded from deb package??? -- Dan Korostelev [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packaging question

* Dan Korostelev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-28 19:41:27 +0400]: Is it possible to make some files installed by 'make install' excluded from deb package??? Delete them after 'make install' from debian/rules . You may tamper with the Makefile as well, but be it as a last resort, only if the

Re: Packaging question

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 07:41:27PM +0400, Dan Korostelev wrote: Is it possible to make some files installed by 'make install' excluded from deb package??? Sure. rm debian/package/blah/fasel in debian/rules after make install. cu andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Packaging question

On , 2004-06-28 at 17:48 +0200, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote: Delete them after 'make install' from debian/rules . You may tamper with the Makefile as well, but be it as a last resort, only if the 'make install' create big files/files after a long calculation etc, you got the idea. Okay

Re: newbie packaging question

Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Hi, by the way, do you use debuild to build your package? I'm using dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot That way Debian will do some more checks before and after build like build dependencies and lintian runs. Lintian will catch a lot of little mistakes one can make like

Re: newbie packaging question

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:38:06AM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: The easiest way for packages in the actual archive is to run 'apt-get source package'. That'll download the sources and unpack them into the current directory. Ahh, this brings up a point that has bothered

Re: newbie packaging question

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:16:31PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: thx to all for the responses. I'm slowly making progress here. Could someone distinguish the configuration section and how that applies to debian packages for me (the eternal newbie). There are several configuration sections you

Re: newbie packaging question

Colin Watson wrote: That's correct except that you want non-free there, not free. (Ever think you'd hear a Debian developer say that?) would it be sacreligious to ask why sources are kept in non-free? I found it easiest (years ago) to read the sources.list(5) man page and learn how those

Re: newbie packaging question

should have added that I also tried the fakeroot /debian/rules binary to build the .deb, but it just told me that it didn't find a file on a line that didn't exist in my /rules file. eric Winger, Eric wrote: thx to all for the responses. I'm slowly making progress here. Could someone

Re: newbie packaging question

Eric Winger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ahh, this brings up a point that has bothered me about debian. Well actually in this case, two points. * all the deb-src entries i tried to add to my sources.list give me * errors when I try to get the source. What is the url for sources? * This is my

Re: newbie packaging question

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:53:27AM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: Colin Watson wrote: That's correct except that you want non-free there, not free. (Ever think you'd hear a Debian developer say that?) would it be sacreligious to ask why sources are kept in non-free? I think one of us is

Re: newbie packaging question

Matthew Palmer wrote: The easiest way for packages in the actual archive is to run 'apt-get source package'. That'll download the sources and unpack them into the current directory. Ahh, this brings up a point that has bothered me about debian. Well actually in this case, two points. *

Re: newbie packaging question

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:40:42PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: Any ideas? Or is the postinst.ex file correct, and i may be not writing the script correctly. I just added: cp myFile /hardcoded path/ ./path/myFile (wishing to run that file) .ex stands for example. remove the .ex. I suggest

Re: newbie packaging question

ok, I've managed to make a .deb file a big ol tarball. Questions: * I would like to test install this package but not go through the apt-get stuff, because i believe it goes to sources.list etc. Is there a simple way to simulate this load to see if my commands run successfully? Or even load

Re: newbie packaging question

I've been able to build a package, install it, get a postinst script to run properly. Now, I'm at the point in my little test where understanding where everything goes during install is important. I'm moving away from using New Deb Maintainer docs and trying to follow advice given in this

Re: newbie packaging question

Eric Winger wrote: would it be sacreligious to ask why sources are kept in non-free? You are asking an obvious question and the answer is the obvious one. The sources are in non-free because they are not free. Look at the copyrights of any of the packages in non-free and you will see that they

Re: newbie packaging question

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:40:42PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: I've modified the postinst.ex file, but my commands aren't being executed. And the Debian New Maintainers' Guide says I shouldn't do this (add to maintainer scripts) yet. So that tells me I should be putting my configuration

Re: newbie packaging question

Ok, I've managed to create a .deb package, experimented with putting things in the rules file, installed my package locally. Learned a little about purge and kind of have the gist of what y'all have been trying to pound into my head. But now I've run into a problem. For my first package, which

Re: newbie packaging question (I get it!)

Ok, I got a few more things understood including what directories get built inside of debian, etc. So I think I understand better what is being installed where, so again, disregard the last email. I've gotten a package to correctly deliver a .bin to a folder successfully run that on install.

Re: newbie packaging question

oops, shouldn't have posted so soon. I found the dpkg -i .deb option. I'll work through that. sorry Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:16:31PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: thx to all for the responses. I'm slowly making progress here. Could someone distinguish the configuration

Re: newbie packaging question

Eric Winger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ok, I've managed to make a .deb file a big ol tarball. Questions: * I thought that the .deb file would end up containing all of my * files, but the only thing that could possible hold my source is the * big tarball that dpkg-buildpackage built for me.

Re: newbie packaging question

Hi, by the way, do you use debuild to build your package? That way Debian will do some more checks before and after build like build dependencies and lintian runs. Lintian will catch a lot of little mistakes one can make like having *.ex files still in the package. Listen to it. MfG

Re: newbie packaging question

On Ter, 2003-08-12 at 14:38, Eric Winger wrote: * all the deb-src entries i tried to add to my sources.list give me errors when I try to get the source. What is the url for sources? This is my latest attempt: deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib free My sources.list

Re: newbie packaging question

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:40:42PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: Ok, I've managed to create a .deb package, experimented with putting things in the rules file, installed my package locally. Learned a little about purge and kind of have the gist of what y'all have been trying to pound into my

Re: newbie packaging question

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:54:08PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: I hope that I've selected the correct debian mailing list for this question. But if not, I would appreciate if you could redirect properly. Nope, this is the right spot. My first steps are proving to be quite haltingly slow. I'm

Re: newbie packaging question

Hi, by the way, do you use debuild to build your package? That way Debian will do some more checks before and after build like build dependencies and lintian runs. Lintian will catch a lot of little mistakes one can make like having *.ex files still in the package. Listen to it. MfG

Re: newbie packaging question

I've been able to build a package, install it, get a postinst script to run properly. Now, I'm at the point in my little test where understanding where everything goes during install is important. I'm moving away from using New Deb Maintainer docs and trying to follow advice given in this

Re: newbie packaging question

Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Hi, by the way, do you use debuild to build your package? I'm using dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot That way Debian will do some more checks before and after build like build dependencies and lintian runs. Lintian will catch a lot of little mistakes one can make

Re: newbie packaging question (I get it!)

Ok, I got a few more things understood including what directories get built inside of debian, etc. So I think I understand better what is being installed where, so again, disregard the last email. I've gotten a package to correctly deliver a .bin to a folder successfully run that on install.

Re: newbie packaging question

Will the packaging tools complain if you have no copyright file, too? I know it's necessary for uploading, of course, and I'm sure lintian would have a right whinge, but will (eg) debhelper scripts have a complain, to your knowledge? Nope. Neither dpkg-* nor debhelper will complain. (Tried

Re: newbie packaging question

Matthew Palmer wrote: The easiest way for packages in the actual archive is to run 'apt-get source package'. That'll download the sources and unpack them into the current directory. Ahh, this brings up a point that has bothered me about debian. Well actually in this case, two points. *

Re: newbie packaging question

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:38:06AM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: The easiest way for packages in the actual archive is to run 'apt-get source package'. That'll download the sources and unpack them into the current directory. Ahh, this brings up a point that has bothered

Re: newbie packaging question

On Ter, 2003-08-12 at 14:38, Eric Winger wrote: * all the deb-src entries i tried to add to my sources.list give me errors when I try to get the source. What is the url for sources? This is my latest attempt: deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib free My sources.list

Re: newbie packaging question

Colin Watson wrote: That's correct except that you want non-free there, not free. (Ever think you'd hear a Debian developer say that?) would it be sacreligious to ask why sources are kept in non-free? I found it easiest (years ago) to read the sources.list(5) man page and learn how those

Re: newbie packaging question

Eric Winger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ahh, this brings up a point that has bothered me about debian. Well actually in this case, two points. * all the deb-src entries i tried to add to my sources.list give me * errors when I try to get the source. What is the url for sources? * This is my

Re: newbie packaging question

oops, shouldn't have posted so soon. I found the dpkg -i .deb option. I'll work through that. sorry Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:16:31PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: thx to all for the responses. I'm slowly making progress here. Could someone distinguish the configuration

Re: newbie packaging question

Eric Winger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ok, I've managed to make a .deb file a big ol tarball. Questions: * I thought that the .deb file would end up containing all of my * files, but the only thing that could possible hold my source is the * big tarball that dpkg-buildpackage built for me.

Re: newbie packaging question

Eric Winger wrote: would it be sacreligious to ask why sources are kept in non-free? You are asking an obvious question and the answer is the obvious one. The sources are in non-free because they are not free. Look at the copyrights of any of the packages in non-free and you will see that they

Re: newbie packaging question

Ok, I've managed to create a .deb package, experimented with putting things in the rules file, installed my package locally. Learned a little about purge and kind of have the gist of what y'all have been trying to pound into my head. But now I've run into a problem. For my first package,

Re: newbie packaging question

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:53:27AM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: Colin Watson wrote: That's correct except that you want non-free there, not free. (Ever think you'd hear a Debian developer say that?) would it be sacreligious to ask why sources are kept in non-free? I think one of us is

Re: newbie packaging question

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:40:42PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: Any ideas? Or is the postinst.ex file correct, and i may be not writing the script correctly. I just added: cp myFile /hardcoded path/ ./path/myFile (wishing to run that file) .ex stands for example. remove the .ex. I suggest

Re: newbie packaging question

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:40:42PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: I've modified the postinst.ex file, but my commands aren't being executed. And the Debian New Maintainers' Guide says I shouldn't do this (add to maintainer scripts) yet. So that tells me I should be putting my configuration

Re: newbie packaging question

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:40:42PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: Ok, I've managed to create a .deb package, experimented with putting things in the rules file, installed my package locally. Learned a little about purge and kind of have the gist of what y'all have been trying to pound into my

Re: newbie packaging question

thx to all for the responses. I'm slowly making progress here. Could someone distinguish the configuration section and how that applies to debian packages for me (the eternal newbie). I was under the impression that the configuration rules were what the package would run after it was loaded.

Re: newbie packaging question

should have added that I also tried the fakeroot /debian/rules binary to build the .deb, but it just told me that it didn't find a file on a line that didn't exist in my /rules file. eric Winger, Eric wrote: thx to all for the responses. I'm slowly making progress here. Could someone

Re: newbie packaging question

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:16:31PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: thx to all for the responses. I'm slowly making progress here. Could someone distinguish the configuration section and how that applies to debian packages for me (the eternal newbie). There are several configuration sections you

Re: newbie packaging question

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:38:11PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: The things which absolutely have to be in a package in order to be built are debian/rules and debian/control. debian/rules gives the commands required to make the package, and debian/control has the information necessary to name

Re: newbie packaging question

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:12:52PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:24:13AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:38:11PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: The things which absolutely have to be in a package in order to be built are debian/rules and

Re: newbie packaging question

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:54:08PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: I hope that I've selected the correct debian mailing list for this question. But if not, I would appreciate if you could redirect properly. Nope, this is the right spot. My first steps are proving to be quite haltingly slow. I'm

Re: newbie packaging question

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:38:11PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: The things which absolutely have to be in a package in order to be built are debian/rules and debian/control. debian/rules gives the commands required to make the package, and debian/control has the information necessary to name

Re: newbie packaging question

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:24:13AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:38:11PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: The things which absolutely have to be in a package in order to be built are debian/rules and debian/control. debian/rules gives the commands required to make the

Re: newbie packaging question

Will the packaging tools complain if you have no copyright file, too? I know it's necessary for uploading, of course, and I'm sure lintian would have a right whinge, but will (eg) debhelper scripts have a complain, to your knowledge? Nope. Neither dpkg-* nor debhelper will complain. (Tried

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