Wow thanks! That's exactly what I needed to know! So am I to assume that
folk put together all of these packages as root? (rpm's I tend to be
extra careful and build the rpm as myself instead of root) I have no
qualms with doing it as root if that's the only option, just wanted to
know.
I'll keep irc.freenode.net in mind! Seems like more and more projects I
work with are setting up rooms there. =) Apparantly I should hop on
there more often. =D
Thanks much for your help!
Daniel
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> Daniel Henninger wrote:
>
>> Folk,
>>
>> I'm having troubles figuring out how to set up a fink package exactly.
>> I'm quite familiar with RPMs and fink's package files definitely seem
>> similar, but what I'm not sure of is how to test-build a package outside
>> of the tree... or is that not possible? I'm getting the impression that
>> all source files must be downloadable, while patch can piggy-back with
>> the
>> info file? I put together jwgc.info and validated it. Now I'm not real
>> sure what to do with it to make it actually create the package. If I
>> were
>> to wager a guess, I'd say I need to put it in the /sw/fink/dists
>> directory
>> tree somewhere and run fink build on it. Could anyone run me through a
>> quick procedure for how they might add a new package? (ie, step 1, i
>> create the .info file in /sw/fink/dists/local/whatever, step 2 validate
>> it, step 3 build it and make sure it works, step 4, submit the info file
>> to a list) ?? Thanks, sorry for the confusion.
>
> Sure, here we go:
> 1) put the file in /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo (create this dir if
> necessary).
> 2) fink validate jwgc.info
> 3) you may have to run `fink index` here first, but try `fink -Kk build
> jwgc`
> Your source file does not have to be downloadable at this time, just put
> the
> tarball in /sw/src.
> After the build look at /sw/src/jwgc-%n-%v and /sw/src/root-jwgc-%n-%v and
> make sure that it build properly and all the files that were installed
> made
> it into the .deb file. Check for them in the roo- directory.
>
> If you need more help, I suggest getting immediate responses on
> irc.freenode.net #fink.
>
> Peter
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> Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com
>
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