On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:12:49 +0200 "Peter Kahle" <pkahle@pobox.com> wrote: > > It all depends on how intrusive you want to get and where, but for the > > packages where I have had to modify the /rules for embedded builds, I > > have begun using the convention of 'DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS = weakpolicy' to > > mean the package build should ignore all policy related to installing > > documentation, and only install the binary files required for execution. > > In many cases you can just not call the particular dh_* commands related > > to docs rather than modifying the files they read. As emdebian-tools shows, sometimes (in fact quite often with the packages built so far), this is insufficient. > As an interested outsider, I wonder if the easiest thing to do, in the case > of dh_* commands related to docs might be to provide a wrapper around the > original dh_* that either checks the actual path of the file and passes on > to the real command (for dh_install, for example) or just returns (for > dh_installdoc, dh_installinfo, dh_installman(pages), etc.) by modifying the > path to include the emdebian versions to be found before the real versions > during a build. That way, packages that use debhelper are pretty much > "automatically" fixed to exclude their docs when building under emdebian, > with no change to the primary Debian packaging. That is exactly what emdebian-tools already do. The results are: 1. CDBS packages work almost always first time. 2. debhelper packages often contain (broken) hacks that get in the way because most maintainers using debhelper don't use *only* debhelper. 3. Other packages that use dpkg directly break noisily. > Also, on the changelog info that's been talked about in another thread, > could something similar to debchange be used to include the append the em1, Again, emdebian-tools has been doing this since v0.0.1. > Anyway, like I said, interested observer, but not active participant. Hope > the feedback is helpful, and I do monitor the list, so let me know if you > have any questions. http://linux.codehelp.co.uk/emdebian/man/ -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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