So I am gathering that whereas it is repugnant to the dpkg design scheme to do it, but for the sake of rpm reconciliation the thread subject question: accessing control file values in postinst is not simple to do other than with major changes like sed pre-processing and such?
Is that the situation? I need to decide this soon and move on. -- IV On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Kris Deugau <[email protected]> wrote: > Ignacio Valdes wrote: >> >> Required to produce versions for both rpm and deb. No introspection >> means not easy to convert this from rpm to deb which is where this >> started. This would make it much easier to produce both deb and rpm >> versions if it has the ability to introspect those variables. > > If all you're looking to do is produce .rpm and .deb package files for > distribution from your own site, you might want to see if a script I wrote > will meet your needs: > > http://deepnet.cx/debbuild/ > > It takes a .spec and creates a .deb package file. > > Please note: it does **NOT** create a Debian package, it creates a .deb > package that should install reasonably sanely on Debian and derivative > systems. > > Someday I'd like to expand it to write Debian packaging metadata that > regular Debian packaging tools can use, but that's not happening any time > soon. > > -kgd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
