Re: Install /usr/bin/something from upstream source to /usr/bin/something on hdd?
Patrick Schleizer <adrelanos@riseup.net> writes:
> I am upstream as well as would like to become a debian maintainer some
> day. Still learning packaging.
> Due to the luxury of being upstream as well, the upstream source package
> can be formatted in any way I wish. [In this case it is a simple package
> with shell scripts only.]
> Personally I find it useful to have a folder layout like this:
> upstream_source_folder/usr/bin/some_script
> upstream_source_folder/usr/bin/another_script
> upstream_source_folder/etc/some_config
> upstream_source_folder/etc/init.d/some_init
> Those should get installed to /usr/bin/some_script etc.
> Is it possible to simplify packaging? I mean, is it possible to automate
> this without using a package.install file? In other words, is it
> possible to tell debhelper, "use the
> upstream_source_folder/usr/bin/some_script and install it to
> /usr/bin/some_script"?
For all of the Stanford-internal packages that we make that are just
collections of scripts like that, we use the following rune in
debian/rules:
override_dh_auto_install:
rsync -C --recursive --links --perms --times --delete \
--exclude debian --exclude t --exclude .gitignore \
$(CURDIR)/ debian/$(PACKAGE)
and then just make the internal layout of the package match the installed
layout. (Obviously you need a build dependency on rsync.) This provides
zero assistance to people using your package not inside Debian, so you may
not want to do things this way and instead provide some sort of Makefile
to install things, but it works great for quick internal packages.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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