On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:47:27PM +0200, Christian SPENER wrote: > On Friday 06 April 2001 02:05, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:58:31PM +0200, Christian SPENER wrote: > > > i made a deb file from tar.gz file, did everything like in the new > > > maintainer guide. it is easy cause the programm is a kdevelop programm, > > > so it uses automake conf etc. > > > > Could you show us your rules file, perhaps? Are you using debhelper? > > > > > everything workes, only the binary goes to /bin not to /usr/bin > > > > Where did you say to put it? > > > > > when i look into into the deb file, under CONTENTS there are this dirs > > > bin > > > usr > > > share > > > > What is "CONTENTS"? How do you look into the deb file? > > > > Julian > > thx, the problem was in the rules file, i had to edit it. thx Gordon Sadler > for the help. > > now the debs work,ok but with > lintian -i programm.changes i get this error > .... > E: ktouch: binary-without-manpage ktouch > .... > > ok, so i made a manpage, like in the new maintainer guide, but > dpkg-buildpackage doesn't find the man page, do I have to tell some config > file that there is this man page, or do i only have to make this manpage > programm.1 ?? leave it in the debian dir? > Try dh_installman, failing that you can always install by hand.. but debhelper sure makes things simpler.
> thx > chris > ps.: > there is another error > E: ktouch: symlink-should-be-relative usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ktouch/common > /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/common > but this one is from the program i think, so i need to edit some stuff in the > programms source, or? > Try dh_link, look at man dh_link. You have a file in the debian dir named $pkg.links that contains src dest to create. dh_link will create them relative or not depending on policy. > pps: and some other stuff. it is a normal kde program made with kdevelop. > when i install it normal with the tar.gz file ( ./configure && make && make > install ) I have to do an > export KDEDIRS=/usr/local/kde > else the program wont work. > when I install the program with the deb file everything works, no need for an > export. on every other distribution it works without a problem. > > ppps: I'am using sid can I make on this machine debs for potato (I think this > is not possible) > Look at debootstrap, helps setting up a chroot system. If your main system is woody/sid you can create a chroot potato to build in, or vice versa. HTH Gordon Sadler
