On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 17:29 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > > Walter Bright wrote: > > > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > > >> This seems pretty urgent. Walter? > > > > > > I asked Jordi, who prepares the .deb files. > > > > Should the binaries be installed on /usr/local/bin instead? > > No. The whole point of debs is that you have a managed /usr/bin where > all the binaries go. Clearly this means you have to have executable > names that are not the same as any other package in either Debian or > Ubuntu. Clearly, in general, this is impossible. However, people just > get on and do the impossible anyway. > > If /usr/lib is used, the same holds. > > Other stuff should be going in /usr/share/dmd and /usr/share/doc/dmd > which do not suffer the same naming issues, unless someone else is > distributing a dmd package. > > I can't use the debs at the moment as they are for i386, and I only deal > in amd64. As soon as amd64 debs are produced I will start using them > instead of having my lash-up install so as to use 32-bit materials on a > 64-bit system. > Ah but you can! sudo aptitude install gcc-multilib libc6-i386 lib6-dev-i386 sudo aptitude install ia32-libs sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture [dmdpackage] > > The project should consider building Ubuntu debs using Bazaar and > Launchpad via a DMD PPA. It would be good if gcd also used this route. > > Anthony Williams builds debs for Just::Thread that are targeted at > Ubuntu but also happen to work on Debian. > > -- > Russel. > > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:[email protected] <sip%[email protected]> > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder >
