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Cpasjuste

2010-02-06 13:58

How to make a .deb package ..

Hi, i'm sorry, there is probably a a lot of informations about how to make a debian .deb package to release, but i can't find it. I did port wesnoth 1.6.5 to the n900, and i'd like to package it, so if someone can point me to the right direction !

Thanks in advance,
David.

harriva

2010-02-06 14:12

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Packaging, Deploying and Distributing

And when time comes to push app to repository.
Maemo Extras Assistant

Cpasjuste

2010-02-06 14:39

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Thanks harriva.

jebba

2010-02-06 20:44

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba/Package_Building_HOWTO

fatalsaint

2010-02-07 07:59

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Some more info:

Manual Method

Super Easy Method

hopbeat

2010-02-07 08:22

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

@Cpasjuste, it may be helpful to get a source of already existing project (e.g. from garage.maemo.org) to see the structure of the catalogs and scripts used.

Cpasjuste

2010-02-07 09:54

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Thanks for the help :)

I'm currently trying this page : http://wiki.maemo.org/Py2deb

I didnt built the package yet with py2deb, but i'm trying to get the proper layout and files on the device. But i have a question : is the dbus "*.service " file really needed even if my application as nothing to do with services ? I'm asking because without it i can see my application under the applications menu, but when i try to launch it, it return to the desktop .. hum hum !

fatalsaint

2010-02-07 17:27

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cpasjuste (Post 514133)

No.. if your app is not registering as a dbus service you don't need it. Your problem sounds related to your .desktop file.. i'd pay close attention to that. Also running from the command line is always a good idea when testing.

Cpasjuste

2010-02-07 18:12

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Thanks fatalsaint.
I think i will need some help, i did try every think i tought. Here is a summary :

So the sdl application (script to launch the binary) is not launching from application menu. I added (i think) correct .desktop, the exec path is right, and the application launch correctly from terminal under the "user" account. i did replace my wesnoth launching script with a script that echo to a file, and nothing is echo"ed" so i guess the script isn't executed at all when launching my application from the application menu.

Here is a copy of my desktop file :

Code:

Nokia-N900-51-1:/home/opt# cat  /usr/share/applications/hildon/wesnoth.desktop

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Encoding=UTF-8

Name=Battle For Wesnoth

Comment=A fantasy turn-based strategy game

Exec=/opt/wesnoth/bin/wesnoth_n900

Icon=wesnoth

X-Icon-path=/usr/share/icons

X-Window-Icon=wesnoth

Type=Application

X-Osso-Service=com.nokia.wesnoth

X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable

Categories=Games

MimeType=application/game

Terminal=false

Code:

Nokia-N900-51-1:/home/opt# ls -laih /opt/wesnoth/bin/

  98317 drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root         4.0k Feb  7 19:11 .

  98316 drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4.0k Feb  7 12:00 ..

  98318 -rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root        16.8M Feb  7 12:00 wesnoth

  98327 -rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          213 Feb  7 12:07 wesnoth_n900

  98325 -rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root         2.2M Feb  7 12:00 wesnothd

  98330 -rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          214 Feb  7 12:20 wesnothd_n900

Code:

Nokia-N900-51-1:/home/opt# cat /opt/wesnoth/bin/wesnoth_n900 

LD_PRELOAD="/opt/wesnoth/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0.10.1" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/wesnoth/lib/" /opt/wesnoth/bin/wesnoth --smallgui -f --bpp 16 -r 800x480 /home/user/MyDocs/games/wesnoth_data/ &>/opt/wesnoth/bin/log

I really don't understand :'(

qwerty12

2010-02-07 18:16

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cpasjuste (Post 514618)

Here is a copy of my desktop file :

If you don't have a service file, then having a X-Osso-Service entry in your desktop file really doesn't make any sense.

Cpasjuste

2010-02-07 18:28

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Woot it worked, i had to remove "X-Osso-Service" line from the .desktop file !
Thanks :)

Edit : Thanks qwerty12, didn't see your comment before posting but you where right :)

Cpasjuste

2010-02-09 08:35

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

I'm sorry to be so stupid, but i did follow this "howto" : http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...d_Distributing .

The problem is i do not want to package the sources ( all is really messy, with makefile edited by hand etc .. ) i just want to package the actual release. But this howto assume we are making a packages with sources :

Code:

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/wesnoth-1.6.5/wesnoth-1.6.5-1] > dh_make -e cpasjuste@gmail.com



Type of package: single binary, multiple binary, library, kernel module or cdbs?

 [s/m/l/k/b] s



Maintainer name : unknown

Email-Address   : cpasjuste@gmail.com 

Date            : Tue,  9 Feb 2010 09:33:27 +0100

Package Name    : wesnoth-1.6.5

Version         : 1

License         : blank

Type of Package : Single

Hit <enter> to confirm: 

Could not find wesnoth-1.6.5_1.orig.tar.gz

Either specify an alternate file to use with -f,

or add --createorig to create one.

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/wesnoth-1.6.5/wesnoth-1.6.5-1] >

Code:

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/wesnoth-1.6.5/wesnoth-1.6.5-1] > dh_make -e cpasjuste@gmail.com --createorig



Type of package: single binary, multiple binary, library, kernel module or cdbs?

 [s/m/l/k/b] s



Maintainer name : unknown

Email-Address   : cpasjuste@gmail.com 

Date            : Tue,  9 Feb 2010 09:36:10 +0100

Package Name    : wesnoth-1.6.5

Version         : 1

License         : blank

Type of Package : Single

Hit <enter> to confirm: 

Currently there is no top level Makefile. This may require additional tuning.

Done. Please edit the files in the debian/ subdirectory now. You should also

check that the wesnoth-1.6.5 Makefiles install into $DESTDIR and not in / .

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/wesnoth-1.6.5/wesnoth-1.6.5-1] >

I'm a little lazy about that stuff :( Some help to make a simple .deb for a release would be great since i can't find something like that in the docs ..

TNiga

2010-02-09 08:56

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

I wrote here some time ago a quick guide to make .deb http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=460952&postcount=2

But if you want to upload your project to extras you have to do the source packaging thing.

Cpasjuste

2010-02-09 10:08

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

This means that we can't release closed sources applications on the n900 ?!

I sucessfully created a deb TNiga, but i have a little problem when trying to uninstall it, i don't understand why it try to remove the "/home/user" directory ( i did put data files in the MyDoc folder since it's around 300mb ) :

Code:

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/wesnoth-1.6.5] > apt-get remove wesnoth

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  wesnoth

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives.

After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

(Reading database ... 45379 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing wesnoth ...

dpkg - warning: cannot remove `/home/user'

dpkg - warning: while removing wesnoth, directory `/home/user/MyDocs' not empty so not removed.

dpkg: error processing wesnoth (--remove):

 cannot remove `/home/user': Permission denied

Errors were encountered while processing:

 wesnoth

E: Sub-process /scratchbox/devkits/debian-etch/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

TNiga

2010-02-09 10:40

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

I suppose you could put the files in /opt first and then in postinst script move them to MyDocs and in prerm script move them back to /opt, then it shouldn't try to remove /home/user.

Cpasjuste

2010-02-09 10:52

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Ok, tricky but it's what i was thinking :)

Else if i understand correctly to release something on the application manager ( extra devel ) :

We need a full sources layout, build the package with db_make, and upload it to autobuilder. This one will compile it again for arm then make a deb out of it ?

There is really no other way to go on extra-devel ? I do use a few libary that are statically linked, but are not available on the normal distro (neither in repo) so the build will fail ?

This is a totally crap process to me ..

TNiga

2010-02-09 11:40

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

If you use libraries which are not in repos then you have to first upload them to extras-devel (or ask nicely if the library maintainer could do it for you) for your app to build succesfully with autobuilder.

chealyte

2010-02-09 14:57

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Hi, i am really new to this linux, i only have some basic programing language.

my question is how do i build .deb package that just to install a .ttf font ? Do i need to do it from my N900 or PC ( windows or Linux ) ? .. sorry i am totally clueless on this

mikkov

2010-02-09 16:01

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

for the original poster: please take the packaging from debian or from earlier wesnoth for maemo port.

torpedo48

2010-02-09 17:03

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Hi everyone.
I've some problems in creating a .deb using TNIGa's nice guide.

First of all, X-Term gave me some errors regarding bad permissions, but I've solved it manually changing permissions to some files.
Now it's giving me another error.
It says:

tar: unrecognized option "--format=gnu"

and then, after explaining the correct usage of tar, it says

dpkg-deb: subprocess tar -cf returned error exit status 1

What can I do?

calvin_42

2010-02-17 22:32

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

I've got exactly the same error when trying to build my package with dpkg-build.

Anyone ? :)

torpedo48

2010-02-18 07:34

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Quote:

Originally Posted by calvin_42 (Post 533186)

I've got exactly the same error when trying to build my package with dpkg-build.

Anyone ? :)

You can't do that on your N900, it has to be done in your scratchbox :)

calvin_42

2010-02-18 13:07

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Quote:

Originally Posted by torpedo48 (Post 533740)

You can't do that on your N900, it has to be done in your scratchbox :)

OK that's what I figured. Thanks!

Khertan

2010-03-04 19:50

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Quote:

Originally Posted by torpedo48 (Post 533740)

You can't do that on your N900, it has to be done in your scratchbox :)

False ... you can create package on your n900 with pypackager ... this is one the main purpose of this tools.

torpedo48

2010-03-04 20:16

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Khertan (Post 556004)

False ... you can create package on your n900 with pypackager ... this is one the main purpose of this tools.

I was talking about the out-of-the-box N900 ;)

Does pypackager adds the dpkg -b command to the N900 X-Term?

carbonjha

2012-07-22 16:53

Re: How to make a .deb package ..

Quote:

Originally Posted by torpedo48 (Post 517964)

this code helped me

Code:

apt-get update

apt-get install tar-gnu

cp /usr/bin/gnu/tar /bin/

checkout this post
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...97&postcount=1

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