Re: packaging UCSC kent tools for debian-med
Hi Hiram,
I hope you don't mind if I'm putting Debian Med list in the discussion
which I would like you to do in pure technical discussion as well.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:00:59AM -0700, Hiram Clawson wrote:
> Good Evening Andreas:
>
> I'm curious if there would be a way to fit this building procedure
> into the Debian-Med project:
>
> http://genome-source.cse.ucsc.edu/gitweb/?p=kent.git;a=blob;f=src/userApps/README
>
> Note steps 1, 2, 3 near the top of the README after the 'System Requirements'
> discussion.
>
> I fully realize this isn't they way packages are supposed to work, but at
> this time, this is the best we have.
Simply from reading the README I can not see anything unusual. Step 1
(fetching the tarball) is totally normal workflow, step 2 is cd-ing to
the unpackaged dir and call make is also pretty normal except that this
make call is done by the debhelper tools. The only difference is step 3
where we do not move files to /usr/local but rather into /usr/bin inside
the Debian package.
> Perhaps there could be a way to
> encapsulate these first three steps into some kind of building/packaging
> business that would satisfy the standard build and packaging procedures ?
Yes, for sure. That's the day job of a Debian packager. Do you want to
learn how to do this? If yes we could offer mentoring in the so called
Mentoring of the Month[1] effort. While there is right now the
September slot occupied I would try hard to help you as well since if we
want to get these tools included (and I would really love to see this)
we need to start right now.
So are you able to invest some time slots into the packaging and want to
work together with us please subscribe this mailing lists (links should be
given on the Wiki page[1]) and ask for help here in case of trouble or
if you need some kickstart help.
Thanks for your interest in Debian Med
Andreas.
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM
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