Re: Packaging without Makefile

2008-04-24 Thread David Given
Dominik George wrote: [...] > Sounds easy - but how do I get it to copy my one single file? What Dmitry > suggested does not quite work ... The debian/rules file *is* a Makefile --- so at the very worst you can just change the bit that invokes upstream's Makefile to a cp. -- ┌─── dg@cowlark.com

Re: Packaging without Makefile

2008-04-23 Thread Ove Kaaven
Dominik George skrev: $ dh-make $ cd debian/ edit/copy in control, copyright, changelog and edit rules remove unwanted files $ cd ../ $ dpkg-buildpackage Sounds easy - but how do I get it to copy my one single file? I'd say with the "dh_install" part of your rules fil

Re: Packaging without Makefile

2008-04-23 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:34 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > $ dh-make > $ cd debian/ > edit/copy in control, copyright, changelog and edit rules > remove unwanted files > $ cd ../ > $ dpkg-buildpackage > > > Sounds easy - but how do I get it

Re: Packaging without Makefile

2008-04-23 Thread Dominik George
> > > $ dh-make > $ cd debian/ > edit/copy in control, copyright, changelog and edit rules > remove unwanted files > $ cd ../ > $ dpkg-buildpackage > > Sounds easy - but how do I get it to copy my one single file? What Dmitry suggested does not quite work ...

Re: Packaging without Makefile

2008-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dominik George wrote: > >> Hello mentors, >> >> I am just packaging my Pidgin Last.fm Plugin for Debian and am wondering how >> to get a .changes file. The problem is that the plugin consists of a single >> perl script which is copied to /usr/lib/pidgi

Re: Packaging without Makefile

2008-04-23 Thread Felipe Sateler
Dominik George wrote: > Hello mentors, > > I am just packaging my Pidgin Last.fm Plugin for Debian and am wondering how > to get a .changes file. The problem is that the plugin consists of a single > perl script which is copied to /usr/lib/pidgin. You may want to consider adding the script to an

Re: Packaging without Makefile

2008-04-23 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 16:00 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Hello mentors, > > I am just packaging my Pidgin Last.fm Plugin for Debian and am > wondering how to get a .changes file. The problem is that the plugin > consists of a single perl script which is copied to /usr/lib/pidgin. You need debia

Re: Packaging without Makefile

2008-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
"Dominik George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >- Ran dpkg -b in order to get a .deb package out of that Yes, that's all 'dpkg -b' does: it builds the *binary* package (the foo.deb). > But all I am left with is a .deb file - so nothing I could upload to > mentors.debian.net or such. You want

Packaging without Makefile

2008-04-23 Thread Dominik George
Hello mentors, I am just packaging my Pidgin Last.fm Plugin for Debian and am wondering how to get a .changes file. The problem is that the plugin consists of a single perl script which is copied to /usr/lib/pidgin. What I already did is: - Create a fodler structure with the file system tree I