On 21 Nov, 23:09, Steven Samuel Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
1. I must use a 'higher-level' tool than dpkg to install the package
which automatically resolves and installs dependency packages. There has
got to be a way to use apt-get for .deb files which do not reside
(yet) in a
I'm not familiar with stdeb, but dpkg-buildpackage needs a file called
control. This is this file that will be used to generate deb archive with
the good dependancies. Into this file, there are two fields, Build-Depends
and Depends, that give to dpkg-buildpackage what are the package
dependancies.
That's exactly the piece of information I needed! :-)
The control file created by setdeb (stdeb_run_setup, to be precise)
looks like this (some lines will get wrapped):
Source: my package name
Maintainer: my name my email address
Section: python
Priority: optional
Build-Depends:
Steven,
apt-get uses /etc/apt/sources.list file to know where packages must be
downloaded from. Usually from a http repository. But, you can use a file
destination:
deb file:/path/to/file unstable main contrib non-free
I advise you to read the debian maintainer guide and the apt-get and
Hi Steven,
This is a normal behaviour for dpkg. If there is a failing dependancy, dpkg
will not install dependancies, it will notify only and will not install the
package. Dependancies installations are managed by the front-end to dpkg
(aptitude or apt). This is not a python issue that you are
On 20 Nov, 02:14, Steven Samuel Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I am trying to build a debian package for my python modules using
stdeb and dpkg-buildpackage. The package building itself works, I also
managed to have an entry point created and I can use my python modules
on the Ubuntu virtual
Hi Stephane,
thanks for your reply! :-)
I do not get any notification or warning or whatever from dpkg, all
output I get when running
# sudo dpkg -i python-package name_0.0.1-4927-1_all.deb
is
Selecting previously deselected package python-package name.
(Reading database ... 15026
Hey Paul
thanks for your reply! :-)
2008/11/21 Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Are you saying that psycopg2 needs setuptools for the setup.py script
to work? This isn't generally the case (or wasn't), but maybe the
entry point is a setuptools thing which would then demand that
software's
Hi all,
I am trying to build a debian package for my python modules using
stdeb and dpkg-buildpackage. The package building itself works, I also
managed to have an entry point created and I can use my python modules
on the Ubuntu virtual machine I use to test the package.
The problem is that my
