Re: Writing a udeb

[Michael Peek <peek@tiem.utk.edu>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> Michael S. Peek wrote:
>   
> > I'm trying to write my own udeb.  I have a prototype that loads and runs, 
> > but it's menu entry in the debian installer is a blank line.  I don't 
> > suppose that's really all that important, since my package is designed to 
> > allow me to do things with preseed files that automate installation, but 
> > from a programmer point of view I would at least like to understand *why* 
> > it's not working.
> >
> > I thought this would do it (package's name is auto-netcfg):
> >
> > auto-config-0.0/debian/auto-netcfg.templates
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Template: debian-installer/auto-netcfg/title
> > Type: text
> > #  Main menu item
> > _Description: Auto-configure network
> >
> > Template: auto-netcfg/preseed-dir
> > Type: string
> > Description: The directory where preseeded network configuration files/dirs
> >  may be found.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas what I've got wrong?
> >     
>
> Maybe you forgot to call dh_installdebconf in the rules file?
>   
Nope, it's in there -- unless it's in the wrong place.  I got my rules 
file by copying it from the source of one of the other udebs:

auto-config-0.0/debian/rules:
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#!/usr/bin/make -f

build:
       dh_testdir

clean:
       dh_testdir
       dh_testroot
       dh_clean

binary-arch: build

binary-indep: build
       dh_testdir
       dh_testroot
       dh_installdebconf
       dh_strip
       dh_compress
       dh_fixperms
       dh_installdeb
       dh_shlibdeps
       dh_gencontrol
       dh_builddeb

binary: binary-indep binary-arch
.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary
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Michael Peek