[M3devel] M3devel Digest, Vol 31, Issue 38

[Peter Eiserloh]

Ah, yes, I only built binaries for AMD64_LINUX, against
debian-lenny (Debian 5.0).  Which goes in the directory
"dists/lenny/main/binary-amd64", but your system was looking
for a directory "dists/squeeze/main/binary-i386", and failing
to find the Packages file.


To get up and running quickly, use "$apt-get source cm3", which
will work as a normal user.

--- Oops, sorry about that, okay those files are there now. --- 

from  
http://www.eiserloh.org/mirrors/modula3/debian/dists/lenny/main/sources/
along with the other two files.

As root, tell apt-get to update its list of .

$ sudo apt-get update
$ apt-get source cm3

apt-get will not only download the source and diff, but also
apply those diffs, giving you my source tree.

Now cd into the source tree, and make everything.  Unfortunately,
I didn't use fakeroot, so you will have be root to build the *.debs.

$ sudo make -f debian/rules binary


Once that is done, cd to the parent directory, and find all the 
*.deb files.  Install that to a local repository and make the 
index files.

$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/packages
$ sudo cp *.deb /usr/local/packages

I created a Makefile that builds those for me, here
is a copy of my Makefile.

--- BEGIN Makefile ---
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
#  /usr/local/packages/Makefile
#  Use this to build the Packages file for all the debian packages.
# --------------------------------------------------------------------

subdirs = binary-amd64
prefix = dists/lenny/main/

# ----------------------------------------------


all: package_index sources_index

clean:
	for dir in $(subdirs) ; do \
	   $(RM) $${dir}/Packages* ; \
	done
	$(RM) sources/Source*

# -------------

package_index:
	for dir in $(subdirs) ; do \
	   dpkg-scanpackages $${dir} /dev/null $(prefix) >$${dir}/Packages ; \
	   gzip -9 -c $${dir}/Packages >$${dir}/Packages.gz ; \
	done

sources_index:
	dpkg-scansources source /dev/null $(prefix) >source/Sources
	gzip -9 -c source/Sources >source/Sources.gz

--- END Makefile ---

Now, how could I make those *.deb files for etch, or
even squeeze (debian-unstable).

I could create a chroot, and install etch onto that,
and rebuild an AMD64_LINUX (debian-etch).

Basically, the only difference would be that everything
gets linked against a different version of libc.

I don't think I could get a 32-bit OS chrooted, as my
kernel is 64-bit, and expecting syscalls from a 64-bit
user space.   Hmm, thoughts of QEMU come to mind.

Actually, QEMU brings the ability to port everything, as
I could run a PPC, ARM, or any other host machine supported
by QEMU.

More work, oh well!  I should be able to find a chunk of
time this weekend to start playing with QEMU.


+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Peter P. Eiserloh                                      |
+--------------------------------------------------------+

 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:37:21 -0400
> From: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] [m3devel] Packaged AMD64_LINUX for
> debian
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Message-ID: <20090527213721.GB20296 at topoi.pooq.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 06:44:47PM -0700, Peter Eiserloh
> wrote:
> > 
> > Please add the following to your
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> > 
> >    deb http://www.eiserloh.org/mirrors/modula3/debian lenny
> main
> >    deb-src http://www.eiserloh.org/mirrors/modula3/debian lenny
> main
> 
> Did this, got nowhere, perhaps because it was a 32-bit
> system running 
> squeeze.  I got messages like:
> 
> http://www.eiserloh.org lenny Release.gpg [IGNORED]
> 
> Just about everything from that site was [IGNORED], except
> for
> 
> http://www.eiserloh.org lenny/main Packages [ERROR]
>  404 Not Found
> http://www.eiserloh.org lenny/main Sources [ERROR]
> 
> Is it worth trying on my AMD64, which runs etch instead of
> Lenny 
> (becasue after upgrading a working copy of my system, the
> NFS server 
> stopped working)?
> 
> -- hendrik
>