Re: packaging help?

[Chris Debenham <chris adebenham com>]

I currently package/distribute an application depending on gtk2-perl
Have a look at how I did my packaging at
http://lds.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lds/lyricue/debian/
It isn't too hard - basically you setup a Makefile that does nothing
for 'make' but just copies the files into the right places when 'make
install' is run.
Then create a binary-indep section in your debian/rules file to build
the actual package.
The packaging at the link above will probably be enough to show you
how to get it working.

On 19 April 2010 05:19, Jeremy Volkening <volkening mailshack com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone can point me toward a good source of
> documentation on packaging applications (build on gtk2-perl) for
> Debian-based distros? I keep banging my head against this step of my
> application development with no real progress. So far I've followed two
> routes in trying to figure this out: a) Reading through as many
> tutorials as I can find online about .deb packaging, and b) downloading
> source packages of gtk2-perl based apps with "apt-get source <package>"
> and examining what others have done. In both cases, I'm a bit
> overwhelmed by the fact that everyone seems to go about it differently.
>
> Most online tutorials seem to deal with preparing packages from source,
> and while my application and supporting libraries are technically, I
> suppose, source code (perl), they don't require compilation or any other
> pre-processing steps. I simply need to copy them to the correct
> directories, install dependencies (all of which are already available in
> the Debian/Ubuntu repositories), and create application menu entries and
> MIME associations. At the moment, I don't need my packages to conform to
> standards for the distro repositories, either. I simply want to be able
> to provide users with a .deb archive from a sourceforge page to simplify
> their installation (upload to repositories may come later). I've
> actually found it easier so far to put together the installer for the
> win32 version than the linux version in which the software is developed.
>
> On a related note, I will need to figure out the correct way for my main
> app script to find the extra libraries once they are installed. I
> currently have the paths hard-coded into the script like this:
>
> use lib '../libs/'; # extra libs
> require BioGTK::RE::Digest;
> require BioGTK::RE::Collection;
> require BioGTK::RE::Manager;
> require BioGTK::App::Prefs;
>
> I suppose I could just change the first line to:
>
> use lib '/usr/local/lib/<app-name>/'
>
> and install the library files to that directory, but is there a better
> way to go about this?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
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