Re: dh_install by file suffix

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Hi again,

I think youe way could be to put the file list into a variable in 
d/rules, and expand the list the .install, like:

---------- debian/iraf.install -----------------------------
etc/iraf/
usr/lib/iraf/bin/ecl.e
[... other fixed content]
${env:IRAF_FILES}
----------------------------8<------------------------------

----------- debian/rules -----------------------------------

override_dh_install:
	IRAF_FILES=$$(cd debian/tmp; \
            find usr/lib/iraf/pkg usr/lib/iraf/unix/hlib \
             -name \*.hlp \
          -o -name \*.hd \
          [...] \
          -o -name \*.fits) \
        dh_install

----------------------------8<------------------------------

where the same procedure however would required for all four binary 
packages. This does not look very nice, and also according to the 
debhelper manpage, one can only expand to 4096 chars (I'd need ~40,000).

Any better idea?

Best

Ole


On 15.07.23 21:01, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am upgrading one of my packages (iraf) to a new version. The new 
> version comes with a "make install", which installs everything under 
> /usr/lib/iraf/ (and some other places).
>
> The "iraf" source package needs to divide these files into user related 
> files (for the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" packages) and development related 
> files (for "iraf-dev" and "iraf-noao-dev"). The problem is now, that the 
> division is (mainly) by extension:
>
> - *.cl, *.hd, *.men, *.par (... and some other extensions) should go to
>    the user packages
>
> - *.a, *.h should go to the development packages
>
> (the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" package differ mainly by that "iraf" 
> collects them in the pkg/ subdir, and "iraf-noao" in the noao subdir).
>
> The main question here is: how can I do a dh_install selective by file 
> suffix? Otherwise, I would need to list the (~1000) files in the 
> "install" files, which is not very robust.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ole