Re: Building a Debian package - is it normal to require that the package itself be installed?

* Chris Sharp csh...@georgialibraries.org [2015-04-16 09:51:57-0400] Hi, I'm working on building Debian packages for Evergreen-ILS (http://evergreen-ils.org/) and OpenSRF (http://evergreen-ils.org/opensrf-downloads/), and dpkg-buildpackage is failing because the upstream package's (OpenSRF

Building a Debian package - is it normal to require that the package itself be installed?

Hi, I'm working on building Debian packages for Evergreen-ILS (http://evergreen-ils.org/) and OpenSRF (http://evergreen-ils.org/opensrf-downloads/), and dpkg-buildpackage is failing because the upstream package's (OpenSRF in this case) Makefile expects a particular directory to exist on the