Re: packaging Rivet

[Massimo Manghi <mxmanghi@apache.org>]

On 09/18/2010 07:01 PM, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> On Saturday 18 September 2010, Massimo Manghi wrote:
>    
> > thank you for the answer. I think the package I built is already
> > 80% baked. I based my work on the scripts David Welton made when
> > he packaged Rivet 0.5 for Debian Apache 1.3, before he quit his
> > committment with Debian. So my doubts are about how to fulfill the
> > requirements of a Debian Apache Policy, how configuration files
> > are automatically linked from etc/apache2/mod-enabled to
> > mod-available and how to reload the configuration into the server.
> > I expected to find postinst or postrm scripts for this purpose in
> > other debian apache packages but I didn't find any. Perhaps I
> > didn't search hard enough, but I thought that it was a chance to
> > have general directions.
> >      
> There is no Debian Apache policy. But in answer to your questions, I
> have put some hints on the Debian wiki:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Apache/PackagingModules
>
> Feel free to correct errors and/or ask for clarifications.
>
>    

thank you, the example in the page are what I was looking for.

In the meanwhile I had a major setback building the package. I thought 
that having module binary, docs was just matter of setting a few 
parameters correctly since at first the docs  and configuration went 
into the package quite easily. I did not expect to get stuck with a 
problem concerning the binary of the module. I've read quite extensively 
the New Maintainer manual and other resources, but I think it's time to 
ask on the mentors list

I will come back to this list when I have a working package to offer for 
sponsorship

 -- Massimo