Re: generic debian/rules that creates directories
On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 21:00:18 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: There have been several replies to this, but none of them quite tell you exactly what to do, so let me take a stab at that. First, dh_installdirs is not actually useful for solving this particular problem . . . Thank you, thank you, thank you! At last someone has stepped forward and give specific help, instead of *merely* pointing to a manpage (and ironically a wrong one). Thanks again Sir, for your help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/la3uqm$btl$1...@ger.gmane.org
generic debian/rules that creates directories
Hi, Is it possible to have a generic debian/rules that creates directories? The upstream Makefiles was not designed to install into $DESTDIR but to /, so it assumes /usr/bin exists, while that creates problems for me: install -s -m 755 autogb /export/build/zh-autoconvert/bld/zh- autoconvert-0.3.16/debian/tmp/usr/bin install: cannot create regular file '/export/build/zh-autoconvert/bld/ zh-autoconvert-0.3.16/debian/tmp/usr/bin': No such file or directory Is it possible to alter the following `debian/rules` file so that it plays nicely with such upstream Makefiles? Thanks $ cat debian/rules #!/usr/bin/make -f # -*- makefile -*- # Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper. # # This file was originally written by Joey Hess and Craig Small. # As a special exception, when this file is copied by dh-make into a # dh-make output file, you may use that output file without restriction. # This special exception was added by Craig Small in version 0.37 of dh- make. # # Modified to make a template file for a multi-binary package with separated # build-arch and build-indep targets by Bill Allombert 2001 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode. #export DH_VERBOSE=1 # This has to be exported to make some magic below work. export DH_OPTIONS %: dh $@ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/la23r5$nk5$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: generic debian/rules that creates directories
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com writes: Hi, Is it possible to have a generic debian/rules that creates directories? The upstream Makefiles was not designed to install into $DESTDIR but to /, so it assumes /usr/bin exists, while that creates problems for me: install -s -m 755 autogb /export/build/zh-autoconvert/bld/zh- autoconvert-0.3.16/debian/tmp/usr/bin install: cannot create regular file '/export/build/zh-autoconvert/bld/ zh-autoconvert-0.3.16/debian/tmp/usr/bin': No such file or directory Is it possible to alter the following `debian/rules` file so that it plays nicely with such upstream Makefiles? Yes. You want to use dh_installdirs(1). I suggest you read its manpage. Mind you, you won't need to touch debian/rules for that. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87eh4rjngh.fsf@algernon.balabit
Re: generic debian/rules that creates directories
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 00:23:42 +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: Is it possible to alter the following `debian/rules` file so that it plays nicely with such upstream Makefiles? Yes. You want to use dh_installdirs(1). I suggest you read its manpage. Mind you, you won't need to touch debian/rules for that. Ok, so I read the manpage of dh_installdirs(1), which I included below. But still how can I use it to create patch that I can send upstream to support creating $DESTDIR/usr/bin and so on, as suggested by Paul? Things are getting far more complicated than I had anticipated. NAME dh_installdirs − create subdirectories in package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installdirs [debhelper options] [−A] [dir ...] DESCRIPTION dh_installdirs is a debhelper program that is responsible for creating subdirectories in package build directories. FILES debian/package.dirs Lists directories to be created in package. OPTIONS −A, −−all Create any directories specified by command line parameters in ALL packages acted on, not just the first. dir ... Create these directories in the package build directory of the first package acted on. (Or in all packages if −A is specified.) SEE ALSO debhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/la2ond$ill$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: generic debian/rules that creates directories
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:08 PM, T o n g wrote: Ok, so I read the manpage of dh_installdirs(1), which I included below. But still how can I use it to create patch that I can send upstream to support creating $DESTDIR/usr/bin and so on, as suggested by Paul? The two topics are completely separate and unrelated. dh_installdirs is a tool to create directories but it is usually only needed to workaround deficiencies in upstream build systems. To create a patch for upstream, learn about Makefile syntax, modify the Makefile and diff your version of the Makefile against the old one. How you do the diff depends on the upstream version control system if any and your own preferences. Personally I choose git for developing upstream stuff, even if they use no VCS or another VCS. First add a workaround using dh_installdirs. Then send upstream a patch. When upstream has accepted your patch and released a new version, update the package to the new version and drop the workaround. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6GGqRBjRMrd7ASbzs4WpW5=xreeuther_dq_r7tv7p...@mail.gmail.com
Re: generic debian/rules that creates directories
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com writes: Is it possible to have a generic debian/rules that creates directories? The upstream Makefiles was not designed to install into $DESTDIR but to /, so it assumes /usr/bin exists, while that creates problems for me: install -s -m 755 autogb /export/build/zh-autoconvert/bld/zh- autoconvert-0.3.16/debian/tmp/usr/bin install: cannot create regular file '/export/build/zh-autoconvert/bld/ zh-autoconvert-0.3.16/debian/tmp/usr/bin': No such file or directory Is it possible to alter the following `debian/rules` file so that it plays nicely with such upstream Makefiles? There have been several replies to this, but none of them quite tell you exactly what to do, so let me take a stab at that. First, dh_installdirs is not actually useful for solving this particular problem since dh_installdirs creates directories in the package staging area. Your problem is happening prior to that; make install of the upstream source into debian/tmp is failing because it's expecting $DESTDIR/usr/bin to already exist. dh_installdirs doesn't create directories in debian/tmp, so it doesn't help with that. The quick solution that doesn't help other users of upstream is to edit debian/rules and add the command: install -d debian/tmp/usr/bin prior to running make install (or, more likely, dh_auto_install). If you're using dh rule minimization and therefore aren't currently running that directly, you do this with an override, which looks like: override_dh_auto_install: mkdir -p debian/tmp/usr/bin dh_auto_install The solution that helps other users of upstream as well is to look at the upstream Makefile (or Makefile.in or Makefile.am, although probably not the last since Automake gets this right) and find where it's running that install command. Add, before that install command, the command: install -d $(DESTDIR)/$(bindir) (or $(INSTALL) if upstream is generally using that). This assumes an Autoconf project that uses $(bindir); if upstream is using something else to name the destination binary directory, use whatever variable upstream is using; if they're just using usr/bin literally, then use: install -d $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fvp7f065@windlord.stanford.edu
Re: generic debian/rules that creates directories
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: First, dh_installdirs is not actually useful for solving this particular problem since dh_installdirs creates directories in the package staging area. Your problem is happening prior to that; make install of the upstream source into debian/tmp is failing because it's expecting $DESTDIR/usr/bin to already exist. dh_installdirs doesn't create directories in debian/tmp, so it doesn't help with that. I guess I should say, for the sake of completeness, that you *can* make dh_installdirs do this with the -P flag. But I would find that confusing; I think an explicit install -d is easier to understand. And, regardless, dh_installdirs isn't normally run before dh_auto_install, so you'd still need an override if you're using dh. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bnzvezzb@windlord.stanford.edu
Re: generic debian/rules that creates directories
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: I guess I should say, for the sake of completeness, that you *can* make dh_installdirs do this with the -P flag. But I would find that confusing; I think an explicit install -d is easier to understand. And, regardless, dh_installdirs isn't normally run before dh_auto_install, so you'd still need an override if you're using dh. Argh. It is too run before dh_auto_install. Sorry about the incorrect information. dh_installdirs would indeed work for this... except that I'm still pretty sure it doesn't act on debian/tmp. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877gajezhj@windlord.stanford.edu
