Re: Cant build a simple package.

[Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs@cacholong.nl>]

Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote:
> [ I already posted this to debian-dev, they told me
> here was the right place. I really need help to learn 
> building debian packages ]
>
> Hello,
> I'm learning making debian packages.
> I choosed to learn on a very simple software: minimalist.
>
> Installing it from source is just about copying a single file
> (minimalist.pl) into /usr/bin and then copying its conf file
> into /etc/minimalist.conf
>
> I get the error message you can see at the bottom of this post.
> I dont understand it. Would you help me?
>
> Especially where to tell the package builder not to use 
> 'debian/minimalist/DEBIAN/control' but 'debian/control' ?
>
>
> In my rules file, I have:
> =========================
>
> #!/usr/bin/make -f
>
> export DH_VERBOSE=1
>
> configure:
>
> build:
>
> clean:
>
> install:
>
>         dh_testdir
>         cp minimalist.pl $(CURDIR)/debian/minimalist
>
> binary-indep:
>
> binary-arch:
>
>         dh_builddeb
>
> binary: binary-indep binary-arch
>
> .PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install
>
>
>
> The error output of the command 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot'
> (wich is run at the top source directory):
> ===============================================================
> [...]
> debian/rules build
>  debian/rules build
>  fakeroot debian/rules binary
>  fakeroot debian/rules binary
> dpkg-deb: failed to open package info file
> `debian/minimalist/DEBIAN/control' for reading: No such file or
> directory
> dpkg-deb: failed to open package info file
> `debian/minimalist/DEBIAN/control' for reading: No such file or
> directory
> dh_builddeb: command returned error code 512
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
> dh_builddeb: command returned error code 512
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1

You still need to make a control file. Something like this:

Source: minimalist
Section: net
Priority: extra
Standards-Version: 3.6.1
Maintainer: Your name <your@mail.address>
Build-Depends: debhelper

Package: minimalist
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Recommends: pdns-doc
Description: short description
 large description

For more information look also at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/

Success with creating debian packages.

Matthijs Mohlmann