Hi, José. On Aug 23 2008, José Luis Tallón wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > I intend to package a heartbeat program for an embedded computer > > (actually, a NAS) based on PowerPC, the Kurobox. > > > Yup, your thread on -devel is most detailed.
I just included that preamble because I'm not sure if the people on debian-mentors actually got my earlier e-mail. > > The original firmware of the Kurobox is non-free, but there is a free, > > highly configurable daemon from > > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppc-evtd>. > > > > The "problem" is that it is packaged by upstream in a quite unusual > > way, with the following directory structure: > > > Hmm.. "packaged"? you mean the "upstream tarball"? > In this case, it doesn't really matter. Yes, by packaged I meant the upstream tarball. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > - > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ tar ztf avr_evtd_1.7.2.release.tar.gz > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./ > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./COPYING > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./Makefile > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./README1st.txt > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./avr_evtd.c > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./PPC/ > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./PPC/avr_evtd > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./MIPS/ > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/ > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/avr_evtd > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/emergency_eth0 > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/avr_evtd.sample > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/EventScript > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/COPYING > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/recovery.tar > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./Install/avr_evtd.1.gz > > usr/src/avr_evtd/./IMPORTANT.PLEASE READ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > - > > > > It also contains a binary included and some other things that need to > > be Debianized. So, in light of this strange situation, would it be the > > case of repackaging the source or would it be better to keep > > upstream's strange arrangement? > > dpkg-source would, AFAIK, rename the "usr" to the proper > avr-evtd-<version> upon unpacking. Please, correct me if I am wrong, but dpkg-source would only rename usr to the proper directory once I have already a source package built, right? > Unless you have to extensively patch the source, or remove any > non-DFSG-free content, I would keep the upstream tarball as it is as > much as possible ("pristine upstream source" for traceability purposes) Right, I understand that. But the amount of patching is quite significant. > When debianizing, just: > > in debian/rules: > - remove all binaries (I mean src/avr_evtd/PPC/avr_evtd): this is > typically achieved by calling "$(MAKE) clean" or similar The Makefile is quite unusual and it has hardcoded paths like /usr/local/sbin, which, of course, need to be changed. It's not a script like the ones generated by a ./configure script. > - compile, but do not install --- you most probably want to do that > yourself, anyway, seeing how upstream likes to arrange things o_O Right. It is indeed unusual. > - you might want to investigate compiler switches to make the daemon > use less resources I guess that compiling with "-Os" (which, BTW, is hardcoded in the Makefile, along with other options) would contradict the policy (right?), even though this would be the desired case for a limited memory platform. > For the rest > - put the daemon in /usr/sbin -debian/install (or avr-evtd.install) Right. > - put the config file in /etc/avr-evtd/avr-evtd.conf or similar (you > might need to patch the source for this) Yes, I will definitely need to patch the daemon for the pathes of configuration files. > - emergency_eth0 seems to be a script -- it would go within > /etc/avr-evtd or /usr/lib/avr-evtd depending on how it gets used It goes, by upstream, into /etc/avr_evtd . And the capitalized names are hardcoded... :-/ > - install the manpage - dh_installmanpages > - install the samples - dh_installexamples Right. > What does "recovery.tar" contain?? this might be the most hairy part... It just contains some text files for the emergency mode of the NAS: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -rw-r--r-- root/root 514 2006-10-17 17:02 etc/group -rw-r----- root/root 429 2006-10-17 17:02 etc/gshadow -rw-r--r-- root/root 870 2006-10-17 17:02 etc/passwd -rw-r----- root/root 574 2006-10-17 17:02 etc/shadow -rw-r--r-- root/root 593 2006-10-18 15:08 etc/issue.net - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
