Re: Multiple packages
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 05:02:34PM +0200, Jan Ekholm wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>
> >> I know how to make single packages (at least they seem to work), but have
> >> no idea where to start for a multipackage thing. What documentation could
> >> I read in order to understand the procedure, or what simple existing
> >> package could I have a look at?
> >>
> >
> >dh_make can generate rules for multi-binary packages, and there's also
> >an example debian/rules file in
> >/usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi (iirc).
>
> Yes, there was such a file, and also a
> /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi2.
>
> Both seem logical if you understand the logic. I don't. :( I have no idea
> where to plug in my package names and get it to build packages like:
>
> foo
> foo-data
> foo-moredata1
> foo-moredataN
The logics is as this. Place your files in debian/$packagename
which works as the root of the binary package. All other interesting
information like conffiles, dirs, docs and so on is named as
debian/$packagename.$extension where the extension is conffiles, dirs
or some other thing.
> What documentation would be good to read? There are such a wealth of
> files, tools, utilities, helpers and whatnot that all has separate
> documentation, I have just no idea where to start.
man dh_* :)
Regards,
// Ola
> Any ideas, anyone?
>
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