Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
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but the promised to me that they'll do it. Are you a DD? We can try to to join
forces.
No, I'm not a DD, but I have previously packaged some Perl modules and single
binary packages. I have also helped with some packages that are important to
me. Generally, time doesn't allow me to get very deeply involved. However, I
would like to help where I can, and my control files are getting into a
decent shape, so I can have this small contribution :-) However, it looks
like Virtuoso needs to be packaged as a multi-binary package, and it needs
init.d-scripts and check for possible conflicts. So, it is somewhat beyond
me.
I'm wondering how you've gone about it; I saw the mention of
http://debianpaket.de/svn-buildpackage/index.html a while ago but have I
missed an actual control file in the mails? Could I have a copy and play
with it here?
From the above, I'm also wondering if you've started from debhelper, or
should be doing so? That's meant to automate most of the process, I gather.
init-scripts are not hard to write. Debian packages an /etc/init.d/skeleton
file that you can copy and tweak; all Virtuoso requires is that you cd to
the directory containing virtuoso.ini and run virtuoso-t there. This will
then create the empty database; the first time you run it, it loads a bunch
of *.vad packages into the database (so you might want a warning "please
wait a while" - compare openssh-server generating keys the first time around).
It might also help to specify ./configure --with-layout=debian so it uses
/var/lib/virtuoso/ as the database directory.
Regards,
~Tim
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Tim Haynes
Product Development Consultant
OpenLink Software
<http://www.openlinksw.com/>
