From: Stephen Touset <stephen@...>
Date: 2007-05-09T23:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] pallet 1.2.1

On Tue, 08 May 2007 14:40:54 +0900, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote:

> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Stephen Touset wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 08 May 2007 01:51:45 +0900, Brian Candler wrote:
>>
>>> OK, so I'm not entirely clear how Pallet works then.
>>>
>>> Does it generate "how to" build rules for the native packaging system - e.g.
>>> spec files for RPM, whatever the equivalent is for Debian (control.tar.gz)?
>>> And then you use the native packaging system to actually create the
>>> package?
>>
>> Yes. And, for debian, that's a whole slew of files in a "debian/"
>> directory, plus a self-executing Makefile called "debian/rules". It's
>> kind of a PITA, actually. :)
> 
> Uhm - as far as I know you only need like - two - of them: debian/control 
> and debian/rules. The others are optional in various degrees (such as 
> debian/copyright is reasonable if you want to distribute the package, 
> isn't it?)

Right. Unfortunately, to do lots of things programmatically, you need
plenty more than that in conjunction with debhelper.

  debian/changelog => changelog
  debian/compat    => debhelper compatibility version
  debian/config    => debconf configuration
  debian/control   => package information
  debian/copyright => copyright information
  debian/dirs      => directories that should be created on the target
  debian/docs      => location of documentation
  debian/files     => files to be installed in the target
  debian/rules     => build script

Plus a few others, depending on whether or not a few options are used.

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Stephen Touset <stephen@touset.org>



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