>Jeremy Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>[Moving to the debian-mentors mailing list - "Helping newbie
>developers".]
>
>>I am trying to create a debian package for RCF (a firewall for
>>linux). There is currently a tarball and RPM of the firewall, but not
>>a debian package, so I thought I might try and make one!
>
>Always useful :)
>
>>The main file (rc.firewall) is placed into /etc/rc.d/, and the config
>>file in /etc. There are also some .tar files that are contained in
>>the rcf tarball that are uncompressed and put into directories within
>>/etc/firewall/.
>>
>>I have read the maintainer's guide that is at the Debian
>>Documentation Project, but it seems to only cover packages that
>>require compiling - which RCF doesn't.
>>
>>After running dh_make and cd'ing to the debian directory, is there a
>>file that allows you to tell dpkg (or whatever is handling the
>>package) to put certain files into certain places, and/or do certain
>>things? I've looked at the debian/rules files, but that refers to
>>compiling from source, and I don't need that!
>
>Just leave out the bits that refer to compiling; packages that don't
>require this are just an easier subset. The 'install' target of
>debian/rules (or the 'binary-indep' target - 'install' isn't required,
>but is often present and is probably in the examples you have) installs
>files into debian/tmp [1]. You're likely to have a build target that
>does nothing, an install target that installs the configuration file in
>debian/tmp/etc and uncompresses the tarballs into
>debian/tmp/etc/firewall, and, since you're using dh_make, a binary-indep
>target that runs lots of debhelper programs to build the rest of the
>package, including dh_installinit which will install rc.firewall in the
>right place given suitable prodding.
>
>[1] If you're using debhelper with DH_COMPAT=2, use debian/rcf or
> whatever instead of debian/tmp.
>
>Beware of Debian being different from Red Hat-derived distributions; we
>use /etc/init.d rather than /etc/rc.d/init.d, and expect packages with
>initialization scripts to use update-rc.d.
>
>As well as the New Maintainer's Guide, you should read the Packaging
>Manual, which will probably go a long way to answering other questions
>you may have.
>
>Cheers,
>
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>Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
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ok, I have left a lot of lines in the rules file empty, because I
think it's not needed, but how do I configure it so that say,
modules.tar is expanded and put into debian/rcf/etc/firewall/modules ?
thanks a lot!
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