Hello, I'm attempting to package some "stuff" (read on for details) and I'm after some assistance. I've already read the contents of the maint-guide package, some of the debian-policy package and a few other bits and pieces of documentation that are floating around. I have successfully (arguably) built a package. I'd like some assistance in making it better.
The package is for internal use at my work. I have no intention of releasing it outside, it's only of any use at work. It's called "sandbox", it's a chrooted SSH server we run on a different port and use for centralised log rotation/removal/archiving. In a nutshell a cron job moves the logs into the chroot jail and then a process on a central logging server SSHes into the jail and removes them. (Side note, I have a goal of becoming a package maintainer, so I'd like to do this as "properly" as I can for future reference). So in this case, I want the package to behave more like a glorified tar file in that it unpacks stuff with appropriate permissions and owners. There is no compiled source so to speak. When I ran dh_make initially, I ran it with the --native option because from reading the manpage that seeming like a Good Thing (tm) to do. I then mucked about with the debian/rules file to put the appropriate stuff in the debian/sandbox/DEBIAN directory and all the usual package building stuff worked file. My questions are: 1) Can filesystem permissions be set for the files in the .deb or are they supposed to be set by the postinstall script? 2) Can I include device files (for the chroot environment) in the .deb or do they need to be created by the postinstall script? 3) If I have to create additional files by the postinstall script how to let dpkg know that they belong to package, or do I just have to add some rm's to the prerm/postrm scripts? 4) I'll probably poke around and work this out, but, what does: dh_shlibdeps dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find path for ld-linux.so.2 dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for (ld-linux.so.2) dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library ld-linux (soname 2, path , dependency field Depends) mean? I think that's about it for the time being. Thanks in advance for your help Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
