Hi there, I'm packaging rxtx. It's a native library to be able to access the serial ports from Java. It provides this support for Linux - it works on i386 and I don't see any problems why it shouldn't work on other architectures. How can I verify my opinion?
My problem mentioned in the subject is that I need different parts of the package at different locations for the different Sun JDKs (1.1 and 1.2). Therefor I put the files into separate directories and create symlinks into the *existing* JDKs. And this is the first problem. The package is not usable if the JDK is installed afterwards or reinstalled/upgraded and so on. So far this is my postinst: <--------------- #!/bin/sh set -e RXTXJDK11PATH=/usr/lib/jdk1.1/lib RXTXJDK12PATH=/usr/lib/jdk1.2/jre/lib/ext case "$1" in configure*) ldconfig # JDK 1.1 if [ -f $RXTXJDK11PATH/classes.zip ]; then if [ -L $RXTXJDK11PATH/jcl.jar -o -e $RXTXJDK11PATH/jcl.jar ]; then echo " " else echo "creating symlinks for JDK 1.1" cd $RXTXJDK11PATH; ln -s ../../../share/java/jcl.jar . fi fi # JDK 1.2 if [ -d $RXTXJDK12PATH ]; then if [ -L $RXTXJDK12PATH/jcl.jar -o -e $RXTXJDK12PATH/jcl.jar ]; then echo " " else echo "creating symlinks for JDK 1.2" ARCH=`dpkg --print-architecture` echo "Arch: $ARCH" cd $RXTXJDK12PATH; ln -s ../../../../../share/java/jcl.jar . #jdk1.2/jre/lib/i386: cd $RXTXJDK12PATH/../../$ARCH/; ln -s /usr/lib/libSerial.so . fi fi echo "This serial driver has to be enabled through modifying javax.comm.properties" echo "provided by the javax.comm package from sun. You may copy a file with the " echo "right content named /etc/javax.comm.properties." echo echo "The javax.comm package from sun has to be installed, too." ;; *) ;; esac <------------- Now running lintian... W: lib-rxtx-java: dpkg-print-architecture-in-maintainer-script postinst:26 Why is lintian complaining about the print-architecture?? The compiled library is architecture dependent - of course. My main problem now is: How can I remove safely the with postinst created symlinks in postrm? javax.comm.properties is file that is provided through the CommAPI package from Sun. But it has to be modified to use the right library or better the right interface driver. Is it okay to put the modified file into /etc? <-------------- /etc/javax.comm.properties Driver=gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver <-------------- Here is the package layout: $ dpkg -c lib-rxtx-java_1.3.3-3_i386.deb drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-07-01 09:15 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-07-01 09:15 usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-07-01 09:15 usr/lib/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 12568 1999-07-01 09:15 usr/lib/libSerial.so.0.1.0 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1999-07-01 09:15 usr/lib/libSerial.so.0 -> libSerial.so.0.1.0 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1999-07-01 09:15 usr/lib/libSerial.so -> libSerial.so.0.1.0 -rw-r--r-- root/root 565 1999-07-01 09:15 usr/lib/libSerial.la -rw-r--r-- root/root 10304 1999-07-01 09:15 usr/lib/libSerial.a drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-07-01 09:14 usr/share/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-07-01 09:15 usr/share/java/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 9833 1999-07-01 09:15 usr/share/java/jcl.jar drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-07-01 09:15 usr/doc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-07-01 09:15 usr/doc/lib-rxtx-java/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 1625 1999-05-01 23:50 usr/doc/lib-rxtx-java/AUTHORS -rw-r--r-- root/root 3056 1999-05-01 23:50 usr/doc/lib-rxtx-java/BUGS -rw-r--r-- root/root 3844 1999-05-01 23:50 usr/doc/lib-rxtx-java/CommAPI -rw-r--r-- root/root 1123 1999-05-01 23:50 usr/doc/lib-rxtx-java/PORTING -rw-r--r-- root/root 3104 1999-05-01 23:50 usr/doc/lib-rxtx-java/README -rw-r--r-- root/root 1614 1999-05-01 23:50 usr/doc/lib-rxtx-java/TODO -rw-r--r-- root/root 402 1999-06-28 12:17 usr/doc/lib-rxtx-java/README.Debian -rw-r--r-- root/root 955 1999-06-28 12:14 usr/doc/lib-rxtx-java/copyright -rw-r--r-- root/root 2832 1999-05-02 01:02 usr/doc/lib-rxtx-java/changelog.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 2810 1999-05-01 23:50 usr/doc/lib-rxtx-java/INSTALL.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 295 1999-06-30 23:26 usr/doc/lib-rxtx-java/changelog.Debian.gz drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-07-01 09:15 etc/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 29 1999-07-01 09:15 etc/javax.comm.properties $ dpkg -I lib-rxtx-java_1.3.3-3_i386.deb new debian package, version 2.0. size 33576 bytes: control archive= 1468 bytes. 27 bytes, 1 lines conffiles 474 bytes, 15 lines control 952 bytes, 15 lines md5sums 1127 bytes, 42 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh 26 bytes, 1 lines shlibs Package: lib-rxtx-java Version: 1.3.3-3 Section: contrib/devel Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: jdk1.1 | jdk1.2 | jdk1.1-native | jdk1.2-native Suggests: jdk-common Installed-Size: 76 Maintainer: Christian Leutloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: rxtx Description: native interface to serial ports in java This is a native library for jdk 1.1.*/1.2.*. . The CommAPI (javax.comm.*) from Sun is additionally needed to be able to program the serial interfaces. Due to the problem with the removal of symlinks the package is only available from http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/debian/packages/. Thanks in advance Christian -- Dipl.-Ing. Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.de.debian.org/
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