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Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

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Originally Posted by jeremiah (Post 272483)

Don't get confused by Architecture: all and Architecture: any - those are really for debian packages. Maemo has just two architectures, x86 and armel. And if your package is a based on a scripting language that can run on any architecture, it is probably best to use Architecture: any. But we are starting to get pedantic here. :^)

well basically all python packages use "all" and it's a bit stupid to generate debs for both i386 and armel when one "all" will do fine

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

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Originally Posted by BrentDC (Post 272203)

I think creating a python packaging howto would be great (...)

I know I'm late to this thread, but there is actually a decent (if short) howto on python packaging for maemo in the last section of the tutorial on the pymaemo site. I used it as one of my main resources when I wrote Grumby last year (part of my motivation being in fact learning python + deb packaging).

The Grumby source tgz may also be useful as learning aid, since it's basically one python file with a lot of maemo/debian padding around. I remember looking at WordPy and other python packages for inspiration at the time.

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

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Originally Posted by Khertan (Post 272612)

http://wiki.maemo.org/Py2deb

Hello Khertan!

I looked at py2deb first to get this packaged, but saw that it doesn't support pre/post-inst scripts (see bottom of the wiki post) and my package relies on these.

Is this correct?

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

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Originally Posted by BrentDC (Post 272467)

One last problem: when building with dpkg-buildpackage, I get this:

Code:

dh_install: quickclip missing files (), aborting

make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1

If I comment dh_install in rules the package builds fine but is just empty (and the icon shows up in AM ;)).

I think I'm really close.

Thanks.

Show me the source! :) (I could guess something but I won't)

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

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Originally Posted by hns (Post 272494)

Thank you hns, both the tutorial and Grumby source were extremely helpful. Today I was successfully able to build a .deb the "proper" way. I ended up creating a setup.py and Makefile files, and with a bit of troubleshooting, a few modifications to my rules and control files, it Just Worked (TM).

Now all that is left is figuring out the whole sign packages/gpg thing (because dpkg-buildpackage gave a few warnings about it), then just upload it to the autobuilder.

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Originally Posted by mikkov

Show me the source! :) (I could guess something but I won't)

Thanks for all the help mikkov (and everyone else), but I finally have a working package. :)

Re: Packaging Help for a Newbie Required...

you don't need to sign the deb