Hi Hiram, I hope you don't mind if I'm putting Debian Med list in the discussion which I would like you to do in pure technical discussion as well.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:00:59AM -0700, Hiram Clawson wrote: > Good Evening Andreas: > > I'm curious if there would be a way to fit this building procedure > into the Debian-Med project: > > > http://genome-source.cse.ucsc.edu/gitweb/?p=kent.git;a=blob;f=src/userApps/README > > Note steps 1, 2, 3 near the top of the README after the 'System Requirements' > discussion. > > I fully realize this isn't they way packages are supposed to work, but at > this time, this is the best we have. Simply from reading the README I can not see anything unusual. Step 1 (fetching the tarball) is totally normal workflow, step 2 is cd-ing to the unpackaged dir and call make is also pretty normal except that this make call is done by the debhelper tools. The only difference is step 3 where we do not move files to /usr/local but rather into /usr/bin inside the Debian package. > Perhaps there could be a way to > encapsulate these first three steps into some kind of building/packaging > business that would satisfy the standard build and packaging procedures ? Yes, for sure. That's the day job of a Debian packager. Do you want to learn how to do this? If yes we could offer mentoring in the so called Mentoring of the Month[1] effort. While there is right now the September slot occupied I would try hard to help you as well since if we want to get these tools included (and I would really love to see this) we need to start right now. So are you able to invest some time slots into the packaging and want to work together with us please subscribe this mailing lists (links should be given on the Wiki page[1]) and ask for help here in case of trouble or if you need some kickstart help. Thanks for your interest in Debian Med Andreas. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140827085235.gb25...@an3as.eu