Re: installing to the games directory
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Thank you everyone for the help. Hopefully I can get away with asking
> two questions in one day: I was able to successfully package a game
> inside a .deb; however, lintian is giving me the error:
> "package-section-games-but-contains-no-game" and the binary is being
> installed to /usr/bin instead of /usr/games. Is there some one-liner
> that I am supposed to put in one of the debian/* files so the .deb is
> built to install stuff to the games directory? The software is properly
> wrapped with autoconf/automake so it should be simply a matter of having
> it pass in the correct --bindir value.
If you are using dh then something like this:
%:
dh --with autotools_dev $@ --parallel
override_dh_auto_configure:
dh_auto_configure -- --bindir=/usr/games --datadir=/usr/share/games
If you are packaging games, you might want to join the games team:
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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