Re: Debian 3.1 packaging documentation
Thank you Carlo,
Actually, I was cutting a few corners and did a quick
read through the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible as well as
a few other sites (I like IBM's site for quick answers
for lots of little tid bits!) and I created the DEBIAN
directory with associated files and skipped the
dh_install process as I thought it was primarily for
when building from source, which I'm not delivering...
I later started looking again and it seems that I'm
missing maybe the debconf file to hold the users
responses for installation.
I also noticed that it's quite possible that my
postinst file may have failed due to a bad sed command
so I'll check to see if it's correctly being called as
I do not know if the dpkg -configure is necessary as
one site indicated it may be required.
I'm really new to Debian (about 5 days) so I'm sorry
if my learning curve is slow.
Do you think I'm on track?
Thanks!
Robert
--- Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Robert:
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, robert jennings wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > Okay, so I read the fine manuals and examples from
> > many many places and maybe I'm just alittle tired
> > after I successfully created my first .deb package
> > (binary) but when I went to install it, the dpkg
> -i
> > xxx.deb installed all the files into the root
> > directory and the postinst file was not run.
> >
> > I ran the dpkg -status and it said it was
> installed
> > ok, but no files were installed other than just
> what
> > was put into the root directory and the
> data.tar.gz
> > file was left intact.
> >
> > It's possible that I need to create alot more
> > information as I'm only packaging binary material,
> but
> > it would help to get even a simple document that
> > explains what I'm doing so I can fix it for
> myself.
> >
>
> Could you give a bit more information? It would
> help to know what the
> package is, how the build environment variables are
> set and what the
> debian/rules file looks like. If you could make the
> package files
> availabke for download, I am sure that you would get
> a lot of help.
>
> From what you say, if there is no compilation of
> programs here, you might
> just be missing some arguments in the dh_install
> commands. It is hard to
> say.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carlo
>
> --
> Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics
> Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate
> College
> Illinois Institute of Technology
> Voice: 312.567.3498 Fax: 312.567.3494
> Carlo.Segre@iit.edu http://www.iit.edu/~segre
>
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
Reply to: