>>>>> "Lisandro" == Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezme...@gmail.com>
>>>>> writes:
Lisandro> On Tuesday 01 September 2015 19:49:06 Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
>> On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:56:17 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>> > This can easily be done with dh-exec now, with much nicer syntax than
>> > what I proposed two years ago:
>> >
>> > Instead of foo.install-common, foo.install.$os, foo.install.$arch, one
>>
>> > can use a single executable foo.install file, with some special markup:
>> Yes, we (the Qt maintainers) have already been thinking about using
dh-exec.
>> We don't want to change existing packages as our current code works fine,
>> but we will definitely look at it if we need it in our next packages.
>> > Since I have a little bit of free time, how about this:
>> >
>> > If foo.install.common exists, auto-include foo.install.$arch and
>> > foo.install.$os (if they exist), provided that foo.install is
executable
>> > and uses dh-exec.
>> >
>> > Alternatively, an executable foo.install, and executable
>> > foo.install.$arch/$os could also be a trigger, so foo.install.common
>> > wouldn't be required, and could be rolled into foo.install.
>>
>> I don't think this is needed. A single file with architecture- or
>> OS-specific lines is much simplier to use and maintain.
Lisandro> Just for the record: we are currently using a hacked -common
-arch approach,
Lisandro> but having a special syntax in .install files would be just
awesome.
Lisandro> Having the possibility to add negations like [!linux] would also
be just cool.
Lisandro> Ie, much in the current way we can manage build dependencies.
That works right now with dh-exec. It supports all wildcards
dpkg-architecture does (it uses that under the hood). Support for the
syntax is in stable too, and dh-exec is trivial to backport to
oldstable, if so need be.
So, you can write this right now:
,----
| #! /usr/bin/dh-exec
| [hurd-i386] this-is-hurd-i386-only
| [linux-any] this-is-linux-only
| [!kfreebsd-amd64] this-is-not-for-kfreebsd-amd64
| [any-i386 any-powerpc] this-is-complicated
`----
This works for all debhelper scripts one can make executable, not only
foo.install files. (Though I've no idea why it would be useful anywhere
else, but hey!)
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