Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

[Ignacio Valdes <ivaldes@hal-pc.org>]

So I am gathering that whereas it is repugnant to the dpkg design
scheme to do it, but for the sake of rpm reconciliation the thread
subject question: accessing control file values in postinst is not
simple to do other than with major changes like sed pre-processing and
such?

Is that the situation?

I need to decide this soon and move on.

-- IV

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Kris Deugau <kdeugau@vianet.ca> wrote:
> Ignacio Valdes wrote:
>>
>> Required to produce versions for both rpm and deb.  No introspection
>> means not easy to convert this from rpm to deb which is where this
>> started.  This would make it much easier to produce both deb and rpm
>> versions if it has the ability to introspect those variables.
>
> If all you're looking to do is produce .rpm and .deb package files for
> distribution from your own site, you might want to see if a script I wrote
> will meet your needs:
>
> http://deepnet.cx/debbuild/
>
> It takes a .spec and creates a .deb package file.
>
> Please note:  it does **NOT** create a Debian package, it creates a .deb
> package that should install reasonably sanely on Debian and derivative
> systems.
>
> Someday I'd like to expand it to write Debian packaging metadata that
> regular Debian packaging tools can use, but that's not happening any time
> soon.
>
> -kgd