On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:21:35AM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Am Montag, 13. M?rz 2006 02:28 schrieb Joe Smith: > > "Rainer Dorsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I tried to package cpuinfo but it seems that the files in debian/tmp did > > > not make it into the .deb file: > > > > debian/tmp is only used if debian/compat does not exist or contains '1'. > > My guess is that your package has some other value in debian/compat. > > If that is the case, install to to debian/<package> (replacing package > > with the name of the binary package) instead of debian/tmp.
When using debhelper, dh_install will do that for you sortof automatically. If you have defined a binary package foo in debian/control, and there is a file debian/foo.install, then putting this in dh_install: debian/tmp/usr/bin/bar will install that file to the same path, minus "debian/tmp/", if it is at the start, in debian/foo. Of course there's nothing against doing that by hand, but I like this approach, so I think it's good that it is mentioned. :-) In fact, your build must have warned you about all the files in debian/tmp, because you use the --list-missing option. For more details, see the dh_install manpage. > That was a hit, many thanks. debian/compat contained 4, installing to > debian/cpuinfo solved the problem. > > Is there documentation on debian/compat? Apparently dh_make generated this > file... It's the compatibility level used by debhelper. In general, it's a good idea to use the latest version (which is currently 5) or at least the version in stable (which is currently 4). Older versions are less featureful, and since few people use them they may not actually work as they should. :-) See the debhelper manpage for details. Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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