Re: Why no Opera?

[Dionysis Kalofonos <k2nysis@yahoo.co.uk>]

icelinux@icelinux.net wrote:
> Quoting Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>:
[..]

> I did not say I was too lazy to read the docmentation. There is too much 
> for a person who has no clue where to begin and it is difficult to 
> digest without the knowledge of how thigs work. It is well known that 
> developers who write documentation often have no trouble understanding 
> it because they already know everything although it is unfathomable to 
> the rest of the world.

having followed this thread i have the impression that you are quite 
lost in the process of creating a package.

i hope i will help a bit by providing you with my notes on the 
information appearing in:
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/




# debian packaging
1) mkdir tmp && cd tmp

2) cvs -q export -r "TAG" -d project-X.X.X project  (if its in a cvs 
repository)

5) tar cvfz project-X.X.X.tar.gz ./project-X.X.X

6) cd project-X.X.X (go in root dir of source code)

7) dh_make -e name@email.address -f ../project-X.X.X.tar.gz

#### debian-maint-guide ch2.4, p13 ####

8) edit control, copyright, rules (maybe works as is though), changelog, 
and any other files required

*) strace -f -o /tmp/log ./configure (or make instead of configure)

use the following script to find dependences (required for the control 
file):
#!/bin/bash
for x in `dpkg -S $(grep open /tmp/log|\
perl -pe 's!.* open\(\"([^\"]*).*!$1!' |\
grep "^/"| sort | uniq|\
grep -v "^\(/tmp\|/dev\|/proc\)" ) 2>/dev/null|\
cut -f1 -d":"| sort | uniq`; \
do \
echo -n "$x (>=" `dpkg -s $x|grep ^Version|cut -f2 -d":"`"), "; \
done
#eof

10) run dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot to make the package
11) dpkg -X project_X.X.X-1_i386.deb ./  to extract it and
   dpkg -c project_X.X.X-1_i386.deb     to see the contents
   dpkg -I project_X.X.X-1_i386.deb     to query the info

   lintian -i project_X.X.X-1_i386.changes
   linda -i project_X.X.X-1_i386.changes  to validate the package
# eof




the missing steps are those strongly related with my project.

As a last word allow me to say that i am a newbe and that i have made 
the above list as a reminder. However, i don't think that the above are 
meaningful without reading through the maintainers guide.

regards,
dionysis




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Dionysis Kalofonos

Departamento de Informática
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http://www.plg.inf.uc3m.es/~dkalofon
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