Re: Starting packaging VistA (Re: LSM in Geneva)

[Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez@kitware.com>]

Hi Andreas,


Here is a status update:


A)  The version number is now "2012", which is much better
      than my poor previous choice of the arbitrary "1.0".

B)  Added a "vista.install" file, that lists the files to be included
      in the .deb package.  Works great so far. The resulting 
      .deb file has the database, and the ~25,000, M routine
      files along with their corresponding .o files.

C)  The size of the resulting file: vista_2012_amd64.deb
       is:  238Mb

D)  A quick "dpkg -i vista_2012_amd64.deb"
      installed the files in the correct (expected) locations in
      "/var/lib/vista/"

E)  Lintian is reporting the following Warnings:

W: vista source: non-native-package-with-native-version
W: vista source: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends vista
W: vista source: debian-rules-uses-pwd line 9
W: vista source: debian-rules-uses-pwd line 11


I can use some help on replacing the "PWD" uses.
It looks like lintian frowns upon the use of PWD in the
rules file...

I'll explore the two other warnings...


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At this point, the next steps would be:

1)   Create "vista" user, and "vista" group ?


2)   For any user in the system, to use this
      VistA instance, it needs to set up a set
      of environment variables that tell GTM
      where to find all files.   It will be convenient
      to provide an example file that a user can
      copy in her .bashrc, or simply source it
      directly.
     
   
I'll work on adding item (2) today.


     Luis