Hi all, I am relatively new to building my own packages (previously I have been able to just alter sources from the main debian archives to suit my needs when I needed something customised) and I am having a couple of "issues".
I am stuck in a situation where I am having to build specific point release packages using upstream sources, there are no debian source packages available for the specific releases I have to match and some of the packages are dependant on other customised packages (also for which there are no debianised sources). I have managed to get the things to build against one another but I keep getting a situation where debhelper is pulling some dependencies from older libraries installed on the build system (in particular pulling libpq3 from the build environment rather than the libpq4 that has been compiled elsewhere). I was going to try and fix this by building the specific lib and -dev packages and installing them in the build environment, but I can't seem to figure it out. When I look a other peoples packaging I notice that the lib and -dev packages (lets say for postsgresql-8.1 - libpq4 and libpq-dev) have their sources listed as the same .tar.gz, .diff.gz and .dsc that builds the main binary packages. I can't see any listing for these packages in the debian/control file and I can't see how they should be built using the debian/rules file. I have tried tweaking the Build Have I missed something big here? Is there a straight forward way to build the lib and -dev packages? or alternately tell debhelper exactly what the dependencies should look like? I get the feeling that this should be easy to deal with by compiling the library packages and installing them so that debhelper can find things in the right place, I am just a little unsure on how to do this. Thanks in advance. -- Nikolai Lusan Systems Administrator Hitwise Pty. Ltd. Level 7 / 580 St Kilda Road Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Australia Phone: +61 3 8530 2400 Fax: +61 3 9529 8907 www.hitwise.com.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] Worldwide: • United States • United Kingdom • Australia • New Zealand • Singapore • Hong Kong To subscribe to our complimentary monthly newsletter, visit: http://www.hitwise.com.au/ The information transmitted may be confidential, is intended only for the person to which it is addressed, and may not be reviewed, retransmitted, disseminated or relied upon by any other persons. If you received this message in error, please contact the sender and destroy any paper or electronic copies of this message. Any views expressed in this email communication are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states otherwise. Hitwise does not represent, warrant or guarantee that the communication is free of errors, virus or interference. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
