Hi,
>snetmanmon works perfectly without any configuration file in /etc. As >long as >you don't want that snetmanmon executes something with special >privileges, there is no need to use (or install) a system-wide >configuration file. Of course, many stuff in the example configuration >files needs root privileges to configure network related things, but >e.g. the monitoring use-case doesn't need any special privileges. > ok, so maybe you can include that line into a if(defined FOO_ROOT) install endif so people can choose about installing it. >So in fact there is no need to install anything. And at the time I've >written snetmanmon, most distributions (including Debian) just started >to change their init-system. And I didn't want to spend the time to >fiddle with all the changes various Linux systems have made, therefor I >haven't had spend much time to write init-scripts. I haven't even >thought much about using snetmanmon on Debian when I've written it. >And if you install snetmanmon.cfg in /etc by cmake, it should (imho) >install an init-script too. Otherwise installing the cfg in /etc doesn't >make much sense. you can use the old sysv init scripts even with systemd. and you can install them with cmake in a similar way >Anyway, thanks for line which install snetmanmon.cfg in /etc. you are welcome :) >That just leaves the problem to handle the copyright file, changelog and >>whatever else the Debian packaging stuff expects, which is why all the >non-sense talk started because you wanted to exchange the cp (for the >copyright file) with install. something like this: use a copyright file in machine readable format https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ and: override_dh_auto_install: cp snetmanmon.conf.full_example debian/snetmanmon/etc/snetmanmon.conf dh_auto_install $ cat debian/snetmanmon.dirs /etc you can also use dh-exec https://codesearch.debian.net/results/%23!%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fdh-exec/page_0 into a single install file, and avoid the override_dh_auto_install at all. also the copyright shouldn't be the whole license, but just the reduced version look e.g. http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/h/hedgewars/unstable_copyright for the versions syntax. To sum up, I would keep the install as I did in the previous mail into an if statement, define that variable into the rules file dh_auto_configure -- -DFOO_ROOT or whatever, and add /etc into debian/snetmanmon.install. Easy for both upstream and debian, and not changing the actual behavior for everybody else. cheers, Gianfranco
