On 12/Jul/2006 08:39 Alexander Schmehl wrote .. > Hi! > > * Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060712 09:13]: > > > >A Debian package of Webmin is available from: > > >http://www.webmin.com/download/deb/webmin_1.290.deb > > To review a package, we need to see the .dsc, .diff.gz and > > .orig.tar.gz files. > > Just out of curiosity I downloaded the package above. > > Looking at it with "dpkg -c", shows a lot of stuff to be installed to > /usr/libexec/webmin/. Which seems odd to me, since > a) curently there are no packages in debian installing something to > /usr/libexec > b) most of it seems to be architecture independend and should therefore > be in /usr/share/fooo
Thanks for the info .. I used /usr/libexec/webmin for my RPM package, but I will switch to /usr/share/webmin for the DPKG. > c) Uhm... btw... how did you created a debian package without any > architecture part (e.g. webmin_1.290_all.deb or webmin_1.290_i386.deb) I used the dpkg --build command. I will use the _all name in future. > d) it missed necassary files, like the debian changelog, copyright > information etc. OK - is there any documentation on the formats for these files? > e) It seems to install files with jcameron/uucp as uid/gid? That's a bug - I'll fix that in the final build. > f) Hmmm... the old webmin packages were splitted in many smaller > packages; I think that was usefull Not really, as it was different to the way all the other (RPM, Solaris, tgz) Webmin packages were built, and introduced a bunch of dependency problems between modules. - Jamie
