I see! I understand now, thanks to your explanation. I can use your "stupid" script as a small hack to move development back to WSL. Thanks! I showed the documentation to a few of my colleagues and none of them could make use of it. It is not intuitive to any of us to expect a configuration file to be replaceable with an executable that echoes back configurations. Is this common practice in Linux? I highly recommend a simple explanation like the one you just said is added to the documentation.
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 7:45 PM, gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 17:28:06 +0300, Nadav Ruskin wrote: > > > > And what of the documentation in debhelper(7) is not clear enough of > how the > > > executable install scripts should "look"? > > You're right, I meant output. It doesn't say how the install mechanism > > works, I don't know what sort of commands I'd need to use to manually > copy > > files to my Debian package and how to instruct "dpkg" where to install > it. > > I don't see any reference for further reading. > > Both dh_install(1) and the page you mentioned: > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#install > explain that a (non-executable) debian/package.install file looks > like > > src/bar usr/bin > > which means that the file bar from the directory src/ will get > installed into the directory usr/bin in the package. > > Now the only difference with an executable debian/package.install is > that the same contents isn't written staticially but is the output of > the script. E.g. to achieve the same, debian/package.install could > say: > > #!/bin/sh > echo "src/bar usr/bin" > > which would be a bit stupid but should work that way :) > > The real power and purpose of executable debhelper helper files is to > calculate paths at build time, e.g. depending on the architecture. > A reallife example from the perl world: > > % cat libtext-bibtex-perl/debian/libtext-bibtex-perl.install > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > use Config; > > # expand the perl binary module directory at build time > print substr($Config{vendorarch}, 1) . "\n"; > > print <<EOF > usr/share/man/man3/*.3pm > EOF > > > Cheers, > gregor > > -- > .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer > https://www.debian.org > : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 > AA06 > `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation > Europe > `- NP: Flying Pickets: Who's That Girl > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEE0eExbpOnYKgQTYX6uzpoAYZJqgYFAlsmkCpfFIAAAAAALgAo > aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEQx > RTEzMTZFOTNBNzYwQTgxMDREODVGQUJCM0E2ODAxODY0OUFBMDYACgkQuzpoAYZJ > qgZWJBAAqWE/6uxJYu2lxQd+xbPYCj/Xc65M+th5JJpE+xxpgii1gd/hNjvN+8n5 > JCBarEkrvGB6DJgzGz0F+yt8opygctSZv9eK4JkM5ioMxEfIznqv22auSRalNK/w > xzAtaRdLScXjiTaKE6sV/9PrES6VL1r4Q/Op+eICQgkguRZ4cXZXFjCEFZSKuxh2 > p1DjgGToIsLkFjIzEQ9KEBpJpYXTdWHjJInlPtCk4qaSQZumjFUuiZCLnTLXsbf5 > 32shVh+r9qhgLWovSn1p0Ccc/rgHb1iRwb9l4vYvSzVZgKlA9ubos5dlVBSdEYRM > nQJ1ezqQpNQhBbaWAumnpg/ptzBNyJP3L/qxJRvXOew9mgNoNqTMEhRLsQs5qU4c > CU7ya5t9YiYkqQAE2uSWAgfrK04x8C7IFgQP7FZ/+l+VEMosVVkow8WWdA+yrRhY > MW7JOSGUVwIwwydM5R6BX8yzJAnx3fuqJ74398xnF5plCdBzGhXMts8teet6Lptd > meHYYcruo0JxRcXOgeIUtLMnHJhbD6Vvgi7vFg43oZr2wQ2aGSNwVhhp1asnxupr > pmHuFX6OnCS3+gzxig5jzpZevLq+b/hCmu3vCIzpMbaUsC73DviRr6w6gC1P1dWg > mZ8N0q0LGRup8OelUAX/j2RitmGqi8OXlYEGY4cHYx18PWMVYJY= > =UKzV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Regards, Nadav Ruskin
