Re: [HELP][LONG] Multiple-binaries packages

["Bryan Donlan" <bdonlan@gmail.com>]

On 4/26/07, David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Mentors,
> I'm trying to package integcheck before ITPing it (see RFP #230769). Since I'm
> just starting with packaging stuff, I encountrered some problems with this one
> (never created multiple-binaries packages before).
>
> I should create two packages: integcheck-server and -client. For that, I created
> two Package sections in debian/control, and created the various
> integcheck-*.{dirs,post*,pre*,*} files.
>
> Now, let's go to debian/rules. What should I edit here? I've seen *-indep and
> *-arch targets, but they are supposed to be used with different archs, aren't
> they? My package runs on any arch, so are they of any use?

*-indep is for Architecture: all binary packages; *-arch is for
anything else. If you only have one or the other (that is,
everything's arch:all, or nothing's arch:all), then you can leave the
other blank, or even (I think) just remove -arch or -indep and use eg
binary:. Since your install script seems to be installing just perl
and shell scripts, this shouldn't be a problem.

Do consider whether your package really /needs/ it though.

> Secondly, the Makefile is totally useless in this case. Here is it:
>
> - ---8<---
> etc=/etc
> prefix=/usr
>
> package:
>        dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
>
> install-client:
>        install -m 755 -o root -g root bin/integcheck-shell.pl
> $(prefix)/bin/integcheck-shell
>
> install-server:
>        install -m 755 -o root -g root bin/integcheck-compare.pl
> $(prefix)/bin/integcheck-compare
>        install -m 755 -o root -g root bin/integcheck-run.sh
> $(prefix)/bin/integcheck-run
>        install -m 644 -o root -g root etc/integcheck.cron $(etc)/cron.d/integcheck
> - ---8<---
>
> The upstream author provides a debian/ directory (building from it causes
> lintian complain about *tons* of things), and the Makefile contains a "package"
> target which used dpkg-buildpackage. That's not what we want to use for official
> packages, don't we?
> Now, I tried to use dh_install into the install-arch target of debian/rules, but
> the manpage says it can't rename files. Ok. So I use /usr/bin/install, and
> debuild complains about the inability to find ./bin/integcheck-*.


Splitting the installed files into multiple packages actually is a job
for dh_install. Try something like (this is based on the dh_make
template):

install: build
       dh_testdir
       dh_testroot
       dh_clean -k
       dh_installdirs

       $(MAKE) install prefix=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr
       rm -rf $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/etc # use dh_installcron for
the crontab, not make install

binary: install
       dh_testdir
       dh_testroot
       dh_installchangelogs
       dh_installdocs
       dh_installexamples
       dh_install --fail-missing --sourcedir=debian/tmp
       dh_link
       dh_compress
       dh_fixperms
       dh_installdeb
       dh_shlibdeps
       dh_gencontrol
       dh_md5sums
       dh_builddeb


Now put in debian/<binary package name>.install a series of wildcard
patterns for what to include, for example:

debian/integcheck-server.install:
usr/bin/integcheck-compare
usr/bin/integcheck-run

debian/integcheck-client.install
usr/bin/integcheck-shell

For a more complete template debian/rules and etc, delete the debian/
directory and run dh_make.