On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:05:32PM -0400, Mabe, David, M (Dave) wrote: > Debian-Mentors: > > I am working on packaging Misterhouse (http://www.misterhouse.net), a home > automation program written entirely in perl. This program has no makefile > for installing, you just unzip, untar and go. > > Question 1: Will I have to change the install routine to use 'make' even > though it is not really needed, or can I somehow have dpkg just copy the > text files to the appropriate directories?
No, you can simply copy the script in the "install:" target. See attach a debian/rules file for a tcl script i'm maintaining. > > Also, this program makes use of several shared scripts that are eval'ed by > the misterhouse engine when the program is run. Users of the program write > their own and usually store these in a private directory and use some that > come with the distribution. These can be thought of as "config files," but > I doubt they should go under /etc. > > Question 2: Where should the user-defined scripts go so they will survive > upgrades ? user-defined stuff usually go into home directory. Don't you want to ? -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED]