Re: apt-get dummy installation

["Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

* "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> wrote:

Jason> On 1 Oct 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>> You are right (debian/rules binary did not work. $(BLD) was unset in
>> the apt target).

Jason> Really? That's very very odd. AFAIK the build dir detection is
Jason> the same the make system works.. Did you not build into a
Jason> subdirectory or something?

I did.
$ cd /tmp/apt/apt/
$ fakeroot debian/rules binary
[...]
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/apt/apt'
touch build-stamp
dh_testdir -plibapt-pkg-doc
dh_testroot -plibapt-pkg-doc
dh_clean -plibapt-pkg-doc -k
dh_installdirs -plibapt-pkg-doc
cp -a /docs/cache* /docs/design* /docs/dpkg-tech* \
  /docs/files* /docs/method* debian/libapt-pkg-doc/usr/doc/apt/
cp: /docs/cache*: No such file or directory
cp: /docs/design*: No such file or directory
cp: /docs/dpkg-tech*: No such file or directory
cp: /docs/files*: No such file or directory
cp: /docs/method*: No such file or directory
make: [libapt-pkg-doc] Error 1 (ignored)
cp -a debian/libapt-pkg-doc.dhelp debian/libapt-pkg-doc/usr/doc/libapt-pkg-doc/.
dhelp
dh_installdocs -plibapt-pkg-doc
dh_installexamples -plibapt-pkg-doc
dh_installchangelogs -plibapt-pkg-doc
dh_strip -plibapt-pkg-doc
dh_compress -plibapt-pkg-doc
dh_fixperms -plibapt-pkg-doc
dh_installdeb -plibapt-pkg-doc
dh_gencontrol -plibapt-pkg-doc -u -Vlibapt-pkg:major=2.6
dh_md5sums -plibapt-pkg-doc
dh_builddeb -plibapt-pkg-doc
dpkg-deb: building package `libapt-pkg-doc' in `../libapt-pkg-doc_0.3.13.1_all.d
eb'.
dh_testdir -papt
dh_testroot -papt
dh_clean -papt -k
dh_installdirs -papt
cp /bin/apt-* debian/tmp/usr/bin/
cp: /bin/apt-*: No such file or directory
make: *** [apt] Error 1


Jason> Well, hmm, no its more complicated than that. It should have
Jason> just semi-randomly picked something to satisfy www-browser. See
Jason> it tried to pick xemacs20 above.

I see.

Jason> There is a subtle bug in the DoUpgrade routine, it was not
Jason> handling | groups correctly at all. With that fixed and support
Jason> to that routine added for or group handling I think it will be
Jason> OK.

I will of cause test this when it is ready.

The scripts at all are also available from CVS,
boot-floppies/scripts/basedisk/newtasks, if you want to take a look yourself.

There is a readme on how to use it.

Ciao,
	Martin