On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Jordi Sayol <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22/03/13 19:52, Tom Browder wrote:
...
>> I am considering volunteering to be BRL-CAD package manager for Debian
...
>> for my Debian-using clients, so that I would probably want to
>> coordinate some changes with Jordi if I do become a Debian packager
>> (such as possibly having a separate deb dir for Debian).
...
> There are at least three basic things to make brlcad deb to accomplish with
> Debian rules:
...
> - split into multiple deb packages
How do you see that split?
> I'm curious to knowing the changes you made on deb building process.
My changes (for a special project with some hacky customization):
1. Currently I modify the system to install BRL-CAD in a versioned
directory. But I'm going to change back to the standard,
non-versioned method you use (per Debian policy).
2. I install a version file as "/etc/brlcad/version" with contents like:
7.22.0
3. in script postinst I drive ld.so.conf as the final step:
# we need ldconfig
ldconfig &>/dev/null || :
4. In file "/etc/profile.d/brlcad.sh" I check for non-zero-length
PATH and MANPATH before using them:
TPATH=/usr/brlcad/bin
TMANPATH=/usr/brlcad/share/man
if [ -z "$PATH" ] ; then
PATH=$TPATH
else
PATH=${PATH}:${TPATH}:
fi
if [ -z "$MANPATH" ] ; then
MANPATH=${TMANPATH}
else
MANPATH=${MANPATH}:${TMANPATH}
fi
export PATH
export MANPATH
I did that because I've had trouble before with Ubuntu if an env var
is empty. I can't say for Debian distros, but I'm still assuming the
above is better practice.
5. I added file "/etc/ld.so.conf.d/brlcad.conf" with contents like:
/usr/brlcad/rel-7.22.0/lib
> Anyway, I think that any improve/change applied to deb packages must be
> applied to rpm too. Their differences are smaller that they seems.
Agree.
In summary, I plan to remove most of my changes as I (1) use the
Debian base file location for installation and (2) remove my localized
hacks into their own deb.
So the only remaining differences with Jordi's version are the two
additional control files and the PATH and MANPATH zero-length checks
in "brlcad.sh".
Comments on remaining differences? I'm probably missing something
standardly done with Debian (trying to determine best packaging
practices has been tough for me).
Best regards,
-Tom
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