Eugene Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi everyone, > > I am trying to create a .deb package for a procps branch[1] by Robert > Love (different from the official procps deb). In the program's > source directory, it has a shared library, many binaries, and many > man pages for those binaries. > > I read, and followed the instructions given in the new Maintainers' > Guide but there are some doubts that this guide didn't address. > > 1. Is there any way to configure the files in debian/ to install > this shared library?
I think you have to create a separate library package. Have a look at http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html (you can find this by looking for "libraries" in the Developer's Reference, file:///usr/share/doc/developers-reference/index.en.html or http://www.de.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/). > 2. What should I do so that I can copy those man pages in the > program's source directory to the respective directory? > > [~/procps/procps-2.0.18] $ \ls *.1 *.5 *.8 > free.1 pkill.1 skill.1 snice.1 sysctl.conf.5 top.1 vmstat.8 > watch.1 pgrep.1 pmap.1 slabtop.1 sysctl.8 tload.1 uptime.1 w.1 You can copy them into $DESTDIR/usr/share/man/man?/ in the install target of the Makefile, or use dh_installman(1). > 3. I have a couple of files in debian/ called procps-doc.{docs,files}. > > It gives this error message when i try to do dpkg-buildpackage. > > cp: cannot stat `#DOCS#': No such file or directory > dh_installdocs: command returned error code 256 > make[1]: *** [binary-common] Error 1 > > Any idea what I should put in the procps-doc.{docs,files} files? Do you generate a package procps-doc? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
