Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Chris Bannister (2014-02-14 05:10:05) > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:06:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> This mailinglist is, after all, a list about developing Debian. If >> your interest is only in *using* Debian e.g. for own package >> development, then our debian-user lists are m

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:06:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > This mailinglist is, after all, a list about developing Debian. If your > interest is only in *using* Debian e.g. for own package development, > then our debian-user lists are more appropriate for that: > https://lists.debian.o

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-13 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, John Holland: > I set up my repo with debarchiver. Is mini-dinstall a better way to go? > Maybe I should redo it that way? > You might also want to look into reprepro. -- -- Matthias Urlichs signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-13 Thread John Holland
I set up my repo with debarchiver. Is mini-dinstall a better way to go? Maybe I should redo it that way? On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:56:20 -0600 Jeff Epler wrote: > If you have a local apt repository (e.g., with dput and > mini-dinstall), then after building each package you would install it > to y

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting John Holland (2014-02-12 23:51:11) > I got some debs built for E 18 not 17 gby oing from the source on > enlightenment.org and building them on Wheezy. They've been working > pretty well for me on a couple machines. Great that you have interest in packaging E18. I dearly recommend you

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread Schlacta, Christ
Thanks everyone! These sound like just exactly the pieces I was looking for. I'll absorb everything I can and either start a new thread or follow up on this one with any questions I develop. On Feb 12, 2014 5:22 PM, "Jeff Epler" wrote: > If you have a local apt repository (e.g., with dput and min

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread Jeff Epler
If you have a local apt repository (e.g., with dput and mini-dinstall), then after building each package you would install it to your local repo. (typical commandline: dput local packagename*.changes) If properly configured, pbuilder can look at the local apt repository and pick up the -dev depend

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 04:10:25PM -0800, Schlacta, Christ wrote: >On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:51 PM, John Holland <[1]jholl...@vin-dit.org> >wrote: > > I got some debs built for E 18 not 17 gby oing from the source on > [2]enlightenment.org and building them on Wheezy. They've bee

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread John Holland
I'm sure this isn't the right way to do it, but I put up the tarballs and dscs and a couple pages that link to them. http://www.vin-dit.org/~jholland/tarballs.html http://www.vin-dit.org/~jholland/dscs.html You have to build them (and install after building) in the order given at enlightenment.o

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread John Holland
I thought they would be set up automatically when I made the repo. I just tried to get source with apt-get source from my repo and it said no source package available. What is the right way to add source packages to the repo? On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:10:25 -0800 "Schlacta, Christ" wrote: > On W

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread Schlacta, Christ
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:51 PM, John Holland wrote: > I got some debs built for E 18 not 17 gby oing from the source on > enlightenment.org and building them on Wheezy. They've been working > pretty well for me on a couple machines. > Thank you for the suggestion, but I'm strictly attempting to

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread John Holland
I got some debs built for E 18 not 17 gby oing from the source on enlightenment.org and building them on Wheezy. They've been working pretty well for me on a couple machines. You might want to look at the E18 situation because many of the dependencies for E17 have been combined into one tarball th

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread Schlacta, Christ
On Feb 12, 2014 10:19 AM, "Neil Williams" wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:05:41 -0800 > "Schlacta, Christ" wrote: > > > > I don't know how to handle this complex dependency of each package on > > previous packages in the complex build process > > Keep building all packages in a loop, remove the

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:05:41 -0800 "Schlacta, Christ" wrote: > So I'm working on backporting enlightenment e17 from jessie to wheezy > since my request to backports went unanswered. Anyway, I believe I've > found out why. > > Enlightenment is comprised of about a dozen packages, each of which >