I 'm starting to hate gmail ;-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pantelis Koukousoulas <pkt...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 8:26 AM Subject: Re: Eclipse packaging To: Ilya <consci...@mail.ru>
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Ilya <consci...@mail.ru> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'd also like to help with packaging Eclipse for Debian. Hello llya, You are most welcome :-) > > Bug 308652 [1] looks reasonably simple for me to work on. At the > moment, I have eclipse.menu and eclipse.desktop files as well as > several icons, but still have to figure out where to put what. There > seems to be no postinst or prerm scripts in the current version (and > there are some things to put in them), and I guess build.sh needs to be > modified so that icons land in the right place. I'll try to research > this on weekend, but if someone has a quick hint I'll appreciate that. > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/eclipse-debian/+bug/308652 Yes, you will have to add an eclipse-full.postinst and eclipse-full.prerm script with your desktop bits. I think you should put the eclipse-full.menu file straight in debian/ and the rest in debian/extras. You will most likely not have to touch anything in debian/scripts. Testing that it works will be up to you though :-) Btw, it would be wise to look at how this is handled in the current debian package files in svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-java/trunk/eclipse Also, hint: Because the build process takes a loooong time it would be wise if you can figure out a way to not have to repeat it every time you change something. So you might have a script for your personal use that does something along the lines of: apt-get remove eclipse-full && debian/rules install (or binary) && <whatever command actually builds a deb> && cd ..; sudo dpkg -i eclipse-full*.deb; cd - If you figure this out, please post the script on the list for the benefit of others with similar needs :-) Cheers, Pantelis _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers