[Ghislain Vaillant, 2016-05-11]
> Dear all,
>
> I have a package (pyfr), which is meant to be used as a command-line
> application only.
>
> The main script (pyfr) is installed via setuptools'
> entry_points['console_scripts'], which generates the entry-point
> automatically and places it under /usr/bin. However, when I install the
> implementation module in a private location, such as /usr/share/pyfr,
> the entry-point cannot find the module and load the application.
>
> Right now, the module is installed in the dist-packages location,
> although it is not intended to be public. It was just the easiest
> solution to start with at the time.
>
> What is the standard way to circumvent this? Do other packages use custom
you can create a wrapper or patch /usr/bin script to
sys.path.append('/usr/share/pyfr') but the easiest solution is to
install the script to /usr/share/pyfr/ (if the module is "pyfr" as well,
simply rename the script to "run" or any other name) and then symlink it
to /usr/bin/pyfr)
override_dh_auto_install:
dh_auto_install -- --install-lib=/usr/share/pyfr/
mv debian/pyfr/usr/bin/pyfr debian/pyfr/usr/share/pyfr/run
and add "/usr/share/pyfr/run /usr/bin/pyfr" to debian/pyfr.links
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