Andrey Rahmatullin: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:23:38PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote: >> I am upstream as well as would like to become a debian maintainer some >> day. Still learning packaging. >> >> Due to the luxury of being upstream as well, the upstream source package >> can be formatted in any way I wish. [In this case it is a simple package >> with shell scripts only.] >> >> Personally I find it useful to have a folder layout like this: >> upstream_source_folder/usr/bin/some_script >> upstream_source_folder/usr/bin/another_script >> upstream_source_folder/etc/some_config >> upstream_source_folder/etc/init.d/some_init >> >> Those should get installed to /usr/bin/some_script etc. >> >> Is it possible to simplify packaging? I mean, is it possible to automate >> this without using a package.install file? In other words, is it >> possible to tell debhelper, "use the >> upstream_source_folder/usr/bin/some_script and install it to >> /usr/bin/some_script"? > The proper way is to write upstream build scripts so that `make install` > (and `make install DESTDIR=foo`) would work properly.
Do you know an example package that works like this so I can pick it up from there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/535a83cc....@riseup.net
