On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:24:58AM -0400, Kevin C. Krinke wrote: > When I run deb-make from within the appropriate directory it creates the > sub directory "debian" with various example file (denoted by the .ex > suffix). This is all fine and dandy and I haven't needed any of these > files until now. > > I need to be able to make crontab entires in the system wide crontab. > For my purposes cron.daily and cron.hourly are not usefull enough. > > So I go ahead and edit the debian/crontab.ex and save it as > debian/crontab. I build the package (with no problems) yet when I > install the package I can see no evidence what so ever of the crontab.
I believe debstd actually tries to add the contents debian/crontab to /etc/crontab at install time. This is NOT what you want, and would be a policy violation since /etc/crontab is a conffile. debstd is not taking advantage of modern mechanisms for doing the same thing. If you are new to Debian packaging, I recommend against using debmake/debstd, as there are likely to be other subtle "gotchas" like this. Instead, install debhelper and read its documentation. Try installing dh-make and running dh_make instead of debmake. This will create example files using debhelper, and you can use debian/cron.d to add a file to /etc/cron.d. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
