On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 23:00 -0400, ext Peter Kahle wrote: > How are people handling packaging when the upstream already includes a > debian directory? > > On http://wiki.debian.org/Emdebian_Nokia there's mention of using a > DEBIAN_DIR environment variable to specify an alternate directory, but > it doesn't seem to work for me in scratchbox. Is there anything special > I have to do besides setting the variable? You should use patched debian utilities, which understand DEBIAN_DIR directory. Unfortunately they're not included into Maemo development environment. If you're interested I can put experimental emdebian devkit for scratchbox somewhere for downloading. It contains patched apt,dpkg,debhelper,cdbs and some other packaging tools.
Here is draft of emdebian packaging rules: http://wiki.debian.org/Embedded_Debian_packaging_rules?highlight=% 28CategoryEmdebian%29 And there is also example of making Emdebian package out of Debian one. If someone is interested in the approach I can put this example in emdebian wiki. > Alternately, would it work to > have more than one control file or other necessary files, and have the > first action in the rules set up the symlinks needed to set the > environment right? > It might work, but from my point of view it's difficult to maintain. -- Ed Bartosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nokia-M/Helsinki _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
