On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:57:00PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> In case anyone would find it useful, it's not very difficult to package
> the subject. I must assume a i386 libc6 system, since i have no others
> to test the instructions. If anyone else would, post an addendum. You'll
> need the approrpiate packages for building deb files installed
> (dpkg-dev, debhelper, that sort of thing).
>
> First, apt-get source netscape-base-473, and download the Netscape
> tarballs for Navigator/Communicator (or both, depending on what you
> want) from netscape.com. Go see a movie while all this downloads. For
> reference, about 200M should be enough to hold all the files.
[...] etc.
Hi,
I converted Brad recipe (only for communicator) to a script (attached at end).
Mirek
#!/bin/bash
set -e
set -x
DC=communicator-v475.x86-unknown-linux2.2
D=netscape4.75-4.75
tar xpzf communicator-v475-us.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz
dpkg-source -x netscape4.73_4.73-19.dsc
mv netscape4.73-4.73 $D
cat <<EOF > ftmp
netscape4.75 (4.75-0) unstable; urgency=low
* Strong crypto is good!
-- You <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `date '+%a, %d %b %Y %T %z'`
EOF
cat $D/debian/changelog >> ftmp
mv ftmp $D/debian/changelog
cat $D/debian/installer |
sed -e 's/for LIBC in 5 6;do/for LIBC in 6;do/g' \
-e 's/4.73/4.75/g' -e 's/473/475/g' -e 's/LIBC:-5/LIBC:-6/' > ftmp
mv ftmp $D/debian/installer
Ds=$D/src/4.75
mkdir $Ds
for x in \
README.install jae40.jar joptio40.jar resource.jar \
ifc11.jar java40.jar jsd10.jar scd10.jar \
iiop10.jar jio40.jar ldap40.jar ;
do cp -a $DC/$x $Ds; done
mkdir $Ds/{communicator,navigator,i386}
mkdir $Ds/i386/{6,communicator,navigator}
cp -a $DC/{nethelp-v475,spellchk-v475}.nif $Ds/communicator
#fake navigator
cp -a $DC/nethelp-v475.nif $Ds/navigator
cp -a $DC/vreg $Ds/i386/6
mkdir $Ds/i386/6/{communicator,navigator}
cp -a $DC/netscape-v475.nif $Ds/i386/6/communicator
#fake navigator
cp -a $DC/netscape-v475.nif $Ds/i386/6/navigator
(
cd $D
debian/rules clean
fakeroot debian/rules binary
)
#fake navigator
rm navigator-*.deb
