On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:48:21AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian Mentors, > > While working on a Python command-line application (harvestman, which > is already in Debian), I have the necessity to create a /usr/bin > entry. Now, creating a symbolic link to the actual executable in > /usr/lib/python2.4/... is what the provided installer does. But I want > to replace it with this: > > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/`pyversions \ > -d`/site-packages/HarvestMan/harvestman.py "$@" > > Now, this is find and great. But _how_ do I put this in my package? Do > I put it as "harvestman.exec" in my package's ./debian/ directory and > then copy it and set the permissions for it using install? Or is there > a more elegant way of getting over this?
This is just the fine way. Or, for 2 lines, you can directly write them in debian/rules. BTW, I would recommend you to, and to hard code the python version in the script provided by the package instead of using pyversions at runtime : if your package is built for python 2.4 and 2.5, and is installed when python 2.6 becomes default, it will stop working. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
