Re: Packaging of Misterhouse
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:05:32PM -0400, Mabe, David, M (Dave) wrote:
> Debian-Mentors:
>
> I am working on packaging Misterhouse (http://www.misterhouse.net), a home
> automation program written entirely in perl. This program has no makefile
> for installing, you just unzip, untar and go.
>
> Question 1: Will I have to change the install routine to use 'make' even
> though it is not really needed, or can I somehow have dpkg just copy the
> text files to the appropriate directories?
No, you can simply copy the script in the "install:" target.
See attach a debian/rules file for a tcl script i'm maintaining.
>
> Also, this program makes use of several shared scripts that are eval'ed by
> the misterhouse engine when the program is run. Users of the program write
> their own and usually store these in a private directory and use some that
> come with the distribution. These can be thought of as "config files," but
> I doubt they should go under /etc.
>
> Question 2: Where should the user-defined scripts go so they will survive
> upgrades ?
user-defined stuff usually go into home directory. Don't you want to ?
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Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT
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