RE: GS in Debian

[Frederico . S . Muñoz]

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> > 
> > Are you aware that the GNUstep make package builds rpms for 
> you, and 
> > could
> > probably be relatively easily be enhanced to build debs?
> > 
> > I think that would be worth doing if the debian people could 
> > be persuaded
> > to accept/use such automatically generated packages.
> > 

Ok, after looking closely at the apps and having made a few debs already
there's what
necessary to make a deb automatically (this only aplies to apps, not to
gnustep-base, since I have yet to look deeply into those)

o The GNUmakefile should have "DESTDIR=" and always use
"GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR = $(DESTDIR)/$(GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT)"

o If it's a lib always have a call to "dh_makeshlibs" in the debian/rules

o Always set up the GNUstep environment before building from source (wither
with the sourcing of GNUstep.sh or with specific variable setting for the
compilation)

I'm assuming that the app follows standard "make; make install". If it needs
something made before hand to do a simple make (i.e. make install is the
real automatic target) things become less automated.

The debhelper packager already makes much of the work (dependencies, etc) so
a deb built this way should be ok and would only need minor tweaks before
being uploaded
to the Debian repository.

cheers,

fsm

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