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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>The .debs do have other files, at least one. See the code I pointed at.<br>I don't make them with the usual tools,<br>for an eaiser potential cross build story -- fewer dependencies.<BR>It worked at the time.<BR> <BR> <BR># Debian architecture strings:<br># see http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#f73<br><br>DebianArchitecture = {<br> "LINUXLIBC6" : "i386",<br> "FreeBSD4" : "i386",<br> "NT386" : "i386",<br> "I386" : "i386",<br> "IA64" : "ia64",<br> "ALPHA" : "alpha",<br> "AMD64" : "amd64",<br> "HPPA" : "hppa",<br> "PA32" : "hppa",<br> "PA64" : "hppa",<br> "MIPS" : "mips",<br> "MIPS32" : "mips",<br> "MIPS64" : "mips",<br> "PPC" : "powerpc",<br> "PPC32" : "powerpc",<br> "PPC64" : "ppc",<br> "SOLsun" : "sparc",<br> "SOLgnu" : "sparc",<br> "SPARC" : "sparc",<br> "SPARC32" : "sparc",<br> "SPARC64" : "sparc",<br> }<br><br>def MakeDebianPackage(input, prefix):<br>#<br># .deb file format:<br># an ar archive containing (I think the order matters):<br># debian-binary:<br># text file that just says "2.0\n"<br># control.tar.gz:<br># metadata, minimum is control file<br># data.tar.gz or .bz2 or .lzma<br># payload<br># User has no choice where the install goes.<br>#<br> if SearchPath("lzma"):<br> compresser = "lzma"<br> compressed_extension = "lzma"<br> elif isfile("/home/jkrell/bin/lzma"):<br> compresser = "/home/jkrell/bin/lzma"<br> compressed_extension = "lzma"<br> else:<br> compresser = "gzip"<br> compressed_extension = "gz"<br> # while testing, gzip is much faster<br> # compresser = "gzip"<br> # compressed_extension = "gz"<br> print("cd " + input)<br> os.chdir(input)<br> CreateDirectory("./debian")<br> MoveSkel(prefix)<br> newline = "\012" # take no chances<br> open("./debian-binary", "w").write("2.0" + newline)<br> os.chdir("./debian")<br> architecture = DebianArchitecture.get(Target) or DebianArchitecture.get(Target[:Target.index("_")])<br> control = (<br> "Package: cm3-" + Target + "-" + CM3VERSION + newline<br> + "Version: 1.0" + newline<br> + "Maintainer: somebody@somewhere.com" + newline<br> + "Architecture: " + architecture + newline<br> + "Description: good stuff" + newline)<br> print("control:" + control)<br> open("./control", "w").write(control)<br><br> command = "tar cf ../control.tar ."<br> print(command)<br> os.system(command)<br><br> command = "gzip ../control.tar"<br> print(command)<br> os.system(command)<br><br> os.chdir(input)<br> command = "tar cf data.tar ." + prefix<br> if isfile("data.tar." + compressed_extension) or isfile("data.tar"):<br> print("skipping " + command)<br> else:<br> print(command)<br> os.system(command)<br> command = compresser + " data.tar"<br> if isfile("data.tar." + compressed_extension):<br> print("skipping " + command)<br> else:<br> print(command)<br> os.system(command)<br><br> command = "ar cr " + input + ".deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar." + compressed_extension<br> print(command)<br> os.system(command)<br> RestoreSkel(prefix)<br><BR> <BR> - Jay<BR><br><br> <BR><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: estellnb@elstel.org<br>Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 10:03:21 +0200<br>To: jay.krell@cornell.edu; dragisha@m3w.org; bruceax@gmail.com<br>CC: m3devel@elegosoft.com<br>Subject: Re: [M3devel] Installing on Ubuntu Trusty Tahr<br><br>If it is a true .deb you need to apply <div>> ar x xy.deb</div><div>and then</div><div>> tar -xvJ <~/aux/data.tar.xz</div><div><br></div><div>(A real .deb will also contain a control .tar.gz with control, shlibs, md5sums, postinst, etc.)</div><div><br></div><div>It should be built with</div><div><div>> pushd BUILD</div><div>> dpkg-buildpackage -sa -<a href="mailto:kmy@email.org">kmy@email.org</a></div><div>> popd</div></div><div>and checked with</div><div>> lintian -EvIL +pedantic my.dsc</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Am 28.05.2014 um 08:42 schrieb Jay K:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div class="ecxhmmessage" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr">.deb is just a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 or .tar.xz with a little bit more around it.<br>They can be fancy but ours is not, it is just a compressed .tar.<br>Can you just crack it open and install the underlying parts?<br>It is likely "position independent" and you can extract it anywhere in your file system -- /usr/local/cm3, $HOME/cm3, etc.<br><br>I build them pretty "manually" see here:<br><a href="https://dcvs.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/scripts/python/pylib.py" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://dcvs.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/scripts/python/pylib.py" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://dcvs.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/scripts/python/pylib.py" target="_blank">https://dcvs.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/scripts/python/pylib.py</a> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><br>the function MakeDebianPackage<br>Ok, it is an actually an "ar" file, and inside the main thing is data.tar with some compression like .gz or .xz.<br><br> - Jay<br><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From: <a href="mailto:dragisha@m3w.org">dragisha@m3w.org</a><br>Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 19:49:28 +0200<br>To: <a href="mailto:bruceax@gmail.com">bruceax@gmail.com</a><br>CC: <a href="mailto:m3devel@elegosoft.com">m3devel@elegosoft.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [M3devel] Installing on Ubuntu Trusty Tahr<br><br>It looks like it is external to cm3 anything. But maybe .deb is incorrect in some subtle way.<br><div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Candara; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;">--</div></span></div></span><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Dragiša Durić</span><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;"><div><a href="mailto:dragisha@m3w.org">dragisha@m3w.org</a></div><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></span><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"></div><br><div><div>On 29 Apr 2014, at 15:01, bruce axtens <<a href="mailto:bruceax@gmail.com">bruceax@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div>I am having difficulty installing cm3-LINUXLIBC6-REL.deb on Trusty? When I try to install it with Ubuntu Software Centre I get told the following:<br><br><blockquote>Lintian check results for /home/bruce/Downloads/cm3-LINUXLIBC6-REL.deb:<br>Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/share/perl5/<br>Lintian/Collect/Package.pm line 513, <$_[...]> line 7562.<br></blockquote><br>Is this a Perl issue or an installer issue?<br><br>-- Bruce</div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div> </div></body>
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