Re: DebCamp work for pkg-perl?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Joey Hess wrote:
> Martín Ferrari wrote:
>> Most surely I'm missing something, but what's cdbs ignoring? It lets
>> you use dh-specific files and also pass arguments via variables...
>> Aren't those the two ways of comunicating with dh_*?
>
> With CDBS you're building a ship in a bottle. You have all the same
> tools available, but there's this bottle in the way, which doesn't let
> you bring any of them fully to bear, and requires all your techniques be
> changed around to fit its limited interface.
>
> This is a beautiful example of the kind of fun you're setting yourself up
> for by chosing CDBS. With debhelper, two commands can be easily
> reordered. With CDBS, you need three magic environment variables and
> either a hardcoded package name or some grody Makefile code:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2008/01/msg00039.html
I've been working a lot with perl packages and CDBS (all my packages
were in CDBS when I maintained them alone) and I must admit it's trivial
when they use MakeMaker is:
======
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/perlmodule.mk
install/libclass-accessor-lvalue-perl::
rm -rfv debian/libclass-accessor-lvalue-perl/usr/lib
======
And with Module::Build which is not supported actually by perlmodule.mk:
======
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
build/libtest-distribution-perl::
/usr/bin/perl Build.PL --installdirs vendor --destdir $(DEB_DESTDIR)
./Build
./Build test
install/libtest-distribution-perl::
./Build install
rm -rfv debian/libtest-distribution-perl/usr/lib/
cleanbuilddir/libtest-distribution-perl::
rm -rfv _build/
rm -rfv blib/*
rm -fv Build
======
I can't see anything hard in this differente to "I don't know that system".
I rather prefer this, writing little scripts that writing a lot, Why?
Because there are fewer parts where you can make an error.
And I did maintain by myself up to 17 perl packages without needing to
change the debian/rules once I wrote it.
One thing for sure, the environment variables of debhelper.mk are not
well documented by there's anything you can't see while reading a little
that makefile, a grep use to work for finding out which variable you
should use to modify whatever you want.
Regards.
- --
Jose Luis Rivas. San Cristóbal, Venezuela. PGP: 0xCACAB118
http://ghostbar.ath.cx/{about,acerca} - http://debian.org.ve
`ghostbar' @ irc.debian.org/#debian-ve,#debian-devel-es
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFHg/HkOKCtW8rKsRgRAumdAJ4/JpqBqGz/bxTLcWIrKsGrcxTPFQCeKOb+
rMNtQ7H21P/2HED7er4p9HE=
=BGUN
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: