Re: slink dpkg failed assertion/potato dpkg in slink
On Jul 11, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 10:41:58AM -0400, Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> > > > dpkg will most probably work fine... I doubt that dselect will compile
> > > > out-of-the-box, though :)
> > >
> > > dselect should compile just fine on slink I think.
> >
> > I don't use it, so I'm not concerned. What is bothering me is that I
> > can't build dpkg just because of problems with dpkg-doc.
>
> You can, you just have to skip the dpkg-doc build somehow. :)
Uh-huh. Tell me something I don't know...
> > - In general, how do I build just a single component from a dsc that
> > is the source to multiple packages?
>
> In general, there's no way.
This strikes me as unfortunate. Sadly, I don't see any (technical)
way to change it. Policy is another matter, but I don't wish to
become embroiled in such matters.
> Individual packages may implement it in their debian/rules somehow.
> Try 'fakeroot debian/rules binary-dpkg' in dpkg tree, that should
> build just the dpkg package.
It should, I agree. However, it doesn't. The binary-* rules simply
determine which .deb files get created, but the whole shebang is built
regardless.
> > - In this case, looking at dpkg's Makefile.in, debiandoc2html is
> > called with flags '-D. -h'; I don't know what -h is supposed to do
> > here, but clearly -D. means to work in the current directory.
> > Unfortunately, the version in potato and woody (1.1.41) doesn't seem
> > to support that flag, and -h produces a usage message. Help?
>
> Actually, it should be "-n -D." (that's how it is in my CVS checkout),
> meaning it's an option to be passed on to nsgmls.
That makes a great deal of sense. Wichert, should I file a bug for
this one-byte fix, or (sense I imagine you're following this thread
anyway) will you make the change without it?
Incidently, dpkg-source unpacks the 'debian' directory with mode 2755,
which prevents dpkg-deb from executing properly. Anyone care to
hazard a guess why it's done that way?
p.s. I got the thing built finally, and it works beautifully - thanks
to both of you for your help.
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