My personal policy is that everything that goes under /usr /bin /sbin etc. should by installed by the OS package manager, while direct installation (“make install”) under /opt is fine, provided that a non privileged user account is used.
So I would suggest to create a system user account (say owfscode) which is the owner of the install tree (by default /opt/owfs) and follow the normal clone, bootstrap, configure, make, install, sequence, under user account owfscode. More explicitly, run as root: # adduser --system owfscode # mkdir /opt/owfs /opt/owfs-build # chown owfscode /opt/owfs /opt/owfs-build as owfscode: $ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/owfs/code /opt/owfs-build $ cd /opt/owfs-build $ ./bootstrap $ ./configure --disable-owperl --disable-owphp --disable-owpython --disable-owtcl --with-systemdsystemunitdir=no $ make $ make install Perl, php, tcl, and python have to be disabled, because the default Makefile's insist in installing them system wide (under /) instead of under the install prefix /opt/owfs. If you need them it is pretty simple to install them manually. (And of course, if you use python you should use virtualenv+pip, not clutter the system wide python.) Same holds for systemd, which actually I do not use. (So I cannot give advice on how systemd should be configured if one choses to install OWFS systemd unit files under /opt/owfs/lib/systemd) With this installation procedure everything is confined under /opt/owfs so I do not see a real benefit in building .deb packages: of course you have to adapt PATH, MANPATH, etc. Stefano > On 28 Dec 2015, at 23:19, Markus Gaugusch <mar...@gaugusch.at> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using Ubuntu 15.10 and the included owfs (2.9p8) is quite old. I'd > like to build a current version, but all information I could find for > building on Ubuntu is quite outdated (based on 12.04 and cvs). > > Best option for me would be to build .deb packages. I switched to Ubuntu > recently and I'm not yet used to building of deb packages. Can anybody > help me? :-) > (In former times I built RPM packages using an adapted spec file). > > thanks! > Markus > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Owfs-developers mailing list > Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
