On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:22:46PM +0100, Daniel Knabl wrote: > Hi there, > > as i use this piece of software already on my own host, i would like to > provide it to any other users. > > for the first steps i have created a directory "vexim-2.2.rc1". it > includes all of the used files (most are *.php files). next i did > "dh_make" on it. > as i think it is a single binary i have coosen this. Single binary means "creating only 1 .deb", which is typical. It isn't talking about "only 1 thing in /usr/bin/".
> if there is anyone willing and/or able to help me with the next steps i > would be very happy. right now i have some questions on how to get > debconf and templates working, Read debconf-devel(7), and google about the config, templates and postinst files WRT debconf. > so that the user can interact whilest > installing. this would be very important - however i do not really know, > how to get the user's input and how to process it further. i think > about cryptic postinst script using many lines containing sed > s/@bla@/$user_in/ > $tempfile ... Are you planning on providing fully generalized "maintainer script" handling of the config files, or are conffiles sufficient? > but first of all i would need some help on the control-file, the > rules-file and on "how to resolve dependencies" of my package. Ok what about? > anyone willing to help: have a look at http://knabl.com/~daniel/vexim Please make the .diff.gz available, and preferrably in such a way that lynx will view it instead of asking how to save it.. You can't just overwrite exim4-config's conffiles. I *think* you can Provide: exim4-config, but only if you also Conflict: exim4-config. You'll have to handle transferring of conffiles ownership gracefully, which is something apparently nobody does. Do you intend to Depend: exim4? How do you deal with the exim4 "conf.d" model vs the exim4.conf model? Your rules file doesn't function at all with dpkg-buildpackage or any other Debian tools :) sed -i -e 's/virtuel/virtual/; s/configuratin/configuration/;' ./debian/control Standards-Version: 2.2.rc1 That doesn't mean what you think it does :) It is a version of Debian policy document, not of your package. -- Clear skies, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
