Hi all, I've just repackaged hello using my new proposed source packaging scheme which does away with dpkg-source and uses just dpkg and standard .deb files instead.
You can grab the files from: ftp://ftp.jimpick.com/pub/debian/experimental/hello/ 444 Oct 22 14:49 README 17506 Oct 22 14:42 hello_1.3-13.1_i386.deb 4306 Oct 22 14:53 src-deb-hello_1.3-1.1_all.deb 88758 Oct 22 14:54 src-orig-hello_1.3-1_all.deb To compile: Install the src-deb-hello_1.3-1.1_all.deb and src-orig-hello_1.3-1_all.deb files, then make a directory somewhere and execute: sudo make -f /usr/src/debian/src-deb-hello/Makefile binary finaldebdir=. (note: you don't have to be root) This will create the hello_1.3-1.1_i386.deb binary package. Then you can use: sudo make -f /usr/src/debian/src-deb-hello/Makefile debclean to clean up. Unfortunately, fakeroot doesn't work for some reason. I suspect that fakeroot could be fixed. Here are the contents of the upstream src-orig-hello file: -- cut here -- new debian package, version 2.0. size 88758 bytes: control archive= 313 bytes. 231 bytes, 9 lines control Package: src-orig-hello Version: 1.3-1 Architecture: all Maintainer: Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: upstream Description: Upstream source code for GNU hello This source was retrieved from: . ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ drwxr-xr-x jim/jim 0 1997-10-22 11:51 ./ drwxr-xr-x jim/jim 0 1997-10-22 11:51 usr/ drwxr-xr-x jim/jim 0 1997-10-22 11:51 usr/src/ drwxr-xr-x jim/jim 0 1997-10-22 11:51 usr/src/debian/ drwxr-xr-x jim/jim 0 1997-10-22 11:53 usr/src/debian/src-orig-hello/ -rw-r--r-- jim/jim 87942 1993-05-22 18:41 usr/src/debian/src-orig-hello/hello-1.3.tar.gz -- cut here -- See, not much there. Nor should there be. The key thing is that it installs the source tarball into a predictable place - and the control file contains useful information about where the file came from, and who put it together. Here are the contents of the debian-specific src-deb-hello file: -- cut here -- new debian package, version 2.0. size 4306 bytes: control archive= 286 bytes. 242 bytes, 8 lines control Package: src-deb-hello Version: 1.3-1.1 Architecture: all Maintainer: Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: debian-specific Depends: src-orig-hello Description: Debian-specific source code for GNU hello Debian-specifc source code for GNU hello drwxr-xr-x jim/jim 0 1997-10-22 12:02 ./ drwxr-xr-x jim/jim 0 1997-10-22 12:02 usr/ drwxr-xr-x jim/jim 0 1997-10-22 12:02 usr/src/ drwxr-xr-x jim/jim 0 1997-10-22 12:02 usr/src/debian/ drwxr-xr-x jim/jim 0 1997-10-22 14:36 usr/src/debian/src-deb-hello/ -rw-r--r-- jim/jim 2741 1997-10-22 14:36 usr/src/debian/src-deb-hello/Makefile -rw-r--r-- jim/jim 2721 1997-10-22 14:36 usr/src/debian/src-deb-hello/changelog -rw-r--r-- jim/jim 598 1997-10-22 14:36 usr/src/debian/src-deb-hello/control -rw-r--r-- jim/jim 2412 1997-10-22 14:36 usr/src/debian/src-deb-hello/copyright -rw-r--r-- jim/jim 122 1997-10-22 14:36 usr/src/debian/src-deb-hello/hello.postinst -rw-r--r-- jim/jim 68 1997-10-22 14:36 usr/src/debian/src-deb-hello/hello.prerm -- cut here -- You will notice that this is essentially the same thing that goes into the debian directory in a convention debian source package. I've done several things: * It is no longer in a subdir off of the base where the upstream source gets unpacked. * The debian/rules file is now just called Makefile (a bit less scary to the uninitiated) * I prefixed the postinst and prerm with the name of the binary package they are supposed to go into. It's not absolutely necessary, but I prefer this when it comes to making multi-binary packages. (I'm a neat freak) * !!! A source depedency !!! - well not really, it's just the same old dependencies we always had. But you can't install this package using dpkg unless you also have src-orig-hello installed (or you override). The cool thing is that this package could also declare a dependency to a binary package (ie. say it needed debmake). OK. Let's look at the Makefile (formerly debian/rules) where the action occurs: -- cut here -- #!/usr/bin/make -f # Sample debian.rules file - for GNU Hello (1.3). # Copyright 1994,1995 by Ian Jackson. # I hereby give you perpetual unlimited permission to copy, # modify and relicense this file, provided that you do not remove # my name from the file itself. (I assert my moral right of # paternity under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.) # This file may have to be extensively modified # This has been severely modified by Jim Pick to demonstrate a # new source packaging scheme SHELL=/bin/sh package=hello srcdebiandir=/usr/src/debian topbuilddir=$(shell pwd) srcdebdir=$(srcdebiandir)/src-deb-hello finaldebdir=.. build: unpack $(checkdir) (cd $(topbuilddir)/hello.src; \ ./configure --prefix=/usr; \ $(MAKE) CFLAGS=-O2 LDFLAGS= ; \ ) touch build unpack: cd $(topbuilddir) -rm -rf hello.src tar xzvf $(srcdebiandir)/src-orig-hello/hello-1.3.tar.gz mv hello-1.3 hello.src touch unpack clean: cd $(topbuilddir) -rm -f build unpack -(cd hello.src; \ -$(MAKE) -i distclean || $(MAKE) -f Makefile.in distclean; \ ) -rm -rf *~ hello.build files* hello.substvars files debclean: clean cd $(topbuilddir) -rm -rf hello.src binary-indep: checkroot build $(checkdir) # There are no architecture-independent files to be uploaded # generated by this package. If there were any they would be # made here. binary-arch: checkroot build $(checkdir) cd $(topbuilddir) -rm -rf hello.build install -d hello.build/DEBIAN install -d hello.build/usr/doc/$(package) cp $(srcdebdir)/hello.postinst hello.build/DEBIAN/postinst cp $(srcdebdir)/hello.prerm hello.build/DEBIAN/prerm chmod +x hello.build/DEBIAN/{postinst,prerm} (cd hello.src; \ $(MAKE) CFLAGS=-O2 LDFLAGS=-s INSTALL_PROGRAM='install -c -s' \ prefix=$(topbuilddir)/hello.build/usr install ; \ ) gzip -9v hello.build/usr/info/* cp $(srcdebdir)/copyright hello.build/usr/doc/$(package)/. cp $(srcdebdir)/changelog hello.build/usr/doc/$(package)/changelog.Debian cp hello.src/ChangeLog hello.build/usr/doc/$(package)/changelog gzip -9v hello.build/usr/doc/$(package)/changelog{,.Debian} dpkg-shlibdeps -Thello.substvars hello.build/usr/bin/hello dpkg-gencontrol -phello -Phello.build -Thello.substvars \ -c$(srcdebdir)/control -l$(srcdebdir)/changelog -ffiles chown -R root.root hello.build chmod -R g-ws hello.build dpkg --build hello.build $(finaldebdir) define checkdir (cd $(srcdebdir); test -f Makefile -a -f control -a -f changelog) endef # Below here is fairly generic really binary: binary-indep binary-arch source diff: @echo >&2 'source and diff are obsolete - use dpkg-source -b'; false checkroot: $(checkdir) test root = "`whoami`" .PHONY: binary binary-arch binary-indep clean debclean checkroot -- cut here -- Ok it's mostly the same, except for a few small differences: * I made some useful defines at the top, specifically: srcdebiandir=/usr/src/debian # The predefined place where source # packages are put on the system. Only root can install source # packages here (using dpkg). But a user can install the source # elsewhere using dpkg-deb --extract, and then call # make srcdebiandir=xxxx to override the source location. topbuilddir=$(shell pwd) # where the source is unpacked and # temporary files are put - this defaults to the current # directory but can be easily override by supplying a # parameter to make (ie. you might have a prefered temp dir) srcdebdir=$(srcdebiandir)/src-deb-hello # Just the location of # this particular package. finaldebdir=.. # Where you want the final .deb containing #the binary files to land. Perhaps this should default to "." * The default rule is build. Seems like a good starting point. * An additional rule: unpack - pretty clear what this does. Source is kept in packed up tarballs in the source packages, and is only unpacked on a temporary basis under the $(topbuilddir) which is usually the current directory owned by the user making the package. There is no reason to unpack things in the same directory as the debian-specific files (as we currently do now). In this example, I unpacked to a directory called hello.src - that just me being a neat freak again. So the upstream source can be anything (ie. .src.rpm's), since the packaging system doesn't unpack them - only the rules the maintainer puts into the Makefile really matter. * OK, I didn't do this since hello didn't need to be patched. But if it did - I was just add another step to unpack (or maybe even a new rule) which would just apply a patch located in $(srcdebdir) or below to the unpacked source. Yes, Virginia, you can include debian-specific binary files using this source packaging format. * Another additional rule: debclean - just calls make clean and additionally nukes the temporary source directory created by unpack. * The binary rules installs everything into a temporary subdir called hello.build. I'm just being neat again. The rest of it is pretty standard. Additional parameters needed to be given to dpkg-shlibdeps and dpkg-gencontrol since I am no longer using the default locations for the control, files, and changelog files. The only thing missing from the mix was the utilities for creating source packages automatically. I just created a directory structure and control file by hand, and used dpkg-deb --create to make them. It was really easy, since the source packages are extremely unsophisticated. OK, that's it. Tell me how you like it. I know I like it. :-) Cheers, - Jim
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