On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:02:19PM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > Hello, > I'm still learning to build debian package. > Following the Debian New Maintainer's guide. > There are two things I dont understand: > > 1 ) ------- > I want that once the binary package is installed, the file > 'minimalist.pl' is into '/usr/bin'. To do so, I put these in the install > section of my "rules" file: > > install: build > dh_testdir > dh_testroot > dh_clean -k > dh_installdirs > > cp minimalist.pl debian/minimalist/usr/bin > > Is it right? Where should I specify i want it into '/usr/bin', > '/usr/sbin', whatever... ? > There's no makefile for this software. It's just about copying one file > into the path. /usr/sbin/ if it is only useful to root, /usr/bin/ otherwise.
You should consider calling it /usr/[s]bin/minimalist, in case it is at some point not implemented in perl. > 2 ) -------- > > To install the configuration file, I append to what I written (in the > "install" section yet: > > cp minimalist.conf-sample debian/minimalist/etc/minimalist.conf > I had to append 'etc' into the 'dirs' file. > Is it right ? Yes. This makes it a "configuration file". If you want it to be a conffile (which I suspect you do), you should also list it in debian/conffiles. Read about conffiles here: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-conffiles.html > PS: I do know there is a minimalist package. > I just do it to learn. Nuff said. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
