hi,
On Dec 4, 3:24pm, Mark Goodwin wrote:
> Subject: Re: Debian patch for latest version of PCP
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Luc Stepniewski wrote:
> >
> > I updated the debian package for PCP to work with
> > PCP 2.1.11.
>
> Could you please send me a complete set of patches (against pcp-2.1.11-6)
> for debian. A while ago there was an SGI internal request for PCP on Debian,
:) ... guess who that was?
> and so we might as well add a deb subdir to the build dir. Do you have
> code we can use to generate .deb packages?
>
> As a side note: how does your "PCP for Debian" differ from what might
> be produced by Alien (the package format converter)? See the Alien
> home page at http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/ for details.
>
Luc's changes will allow the PCP source to be built as part
of the Debian build process, conform to Debian policy, and
hence allow the PCP package to become an official part of
Debian (you need to learn some more about Debian before you
can understand what you really asked there, Mark ;-)
> > What is the current status about adding the debian/
> > directory to official distribution ? The last time
Note - (ironic legal issues aside) - it is not really
required to add this subdir at all. This is simply a
convenience and can be done outside of the source package
(in some ways its nice if its incorporated though). It is
also not very useful to allow any-old person to build the
Debian package (as it is with rpm, for example) as these
need to be gpg/pgp signed before they can be uploaded to
the Debian servers.
Luc, do you intend to put your (very cool, thank you so
much!) pcp & pcpmon packages into unstable?
I have been working with some Debian folk on getting the
XFS user commands Debian-packaged - it may be useful to
look thru the way I addressed this there (those tools are
packaged in a very similar way to PCP) - I'd be interested
in your thoughts on that too - see the xfs homepage on oss
and cmd/xfs/tools/debian + cmd/xfs/build/deb.
I'm not sure this is the ideal mechanism (it may well be),
but it doesn't force the issue of having an "extraneous"
$(TOPDIR)/debian subdir rather than a $(TOPDIR)/build/deb,
which would be the ideal solution in terms of the pcp
(gensrc) packaging mechanism.
You also don't need the DESTDIR kludge in all the Makefiles
since the pcp build can be configure'd to use alternate paths
already (I haven't looked at your latest pcp changes to see
whether they still do this, I'm very busy on other stuff at
the moment unfortunately).
cheers.
--
Nathan
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