RFC: packaging a daemon for an embedded platform
Dear mentors (with CC to debian-powerpc),
I intend to package a heartbeat program for an embedded computer
(actually, a NAS) based on PowerPC, the Kurobox.
The original firmware of the Kurobox is non-free, but there is a free,
highly configurable daemon from
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppc-evtd>.
The "problem" is that it is packaged by upstream in a quite unusual
way, with the following directory structure:
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rbrito@cruz:/tmp$ tar ztf avr_evtd_1.7.2.release.tar.gz
usr/src/avr_evtd/./
usr/src/avr_evtd/./COPYING
usr/src/avr_evtd/./Makefile
usr/src/avr_evtd/./README1st.txt
usr/src/avr_evtd/./avr_evtd.c
usr/src/avr_evtd/./PPC/
usr/src/avr_evtd/./PPC/avr_evtd
usr/src/avr_evtd/./MIPS/
usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/
usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/avr_evtd
usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/emergency_eth0
usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/avr_evtd.sample
usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/EventScript
usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/COPYING
usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/recovery.tar
usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/avr_evtd.1.gz
usr/src/avr_evtd/./IMPORTANT.PLEASE READ
rbrito@cruz:/tmp$
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It also contains a binary included and some other things that need to
be Debianized. So, in light of this strange situation, would it be the
case of repackaging the source or would it be better to keep
upstream's strange arrangement?
I'm interested, BTW, in getting things working well in small, embedded
platforms.
Thanks for any comments, Rogério Brito.
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