2012/10/16 Mattias Gaertner :
Are you reinventing the wheel or do you use the deb scripts that are used for sf
packages?
I studied these scripts for some inspiration but I cannot use them as they are for the ubuntu build servers. They are constructing a package from the outside (they are putting the files together and calling the dpkg tools explicitly) but the way it should work is to have the package build *itself* with its rules file. debuild will first look for the debian folder, changelog, control and rules already in place and then call the targets in debian/rules that will perform the build and installation process.
Ideally (in a perfect world where make install does a correct and complete intallation) the rues file (which itself is a makefile too) would just look like this:
override_dh_auto_clean:
make clean
override_dh_auto_build:
make bigide
override_dh_auto_install:
make install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/lazarus/usr
%:
dh $@
This (along with the metadata in the other debian files) would normally be all that is needed to debianize any piece of software. When uploaded to the build servers they will unzip, look for the debian folder and call the targets in debian/rules.
currently my rules file looks like this (its still quite simple, 70% of it are comments with my rants about shortcomings of make install):
#!/usr/bin/make -f
OPT="-g- -Xs"
ROOT = $(CURDIR)/debian/lazarus
ORIG = $(CURDIR)
override_dh_auto_clean:
$(MAKE) -C $(ORIG) cleanbigide distclean
find $(ORIG) -name "*.a" -exec rm {} \;
$(RM) $(ORIG)/lazarus
$(RM) $(ORIG)/startlazarus
$(RM) $(ORIG)/lazbuild
$(RM) -r /tmp/lazarus
override_dh_auto_build:
$(MAKE) -C $(ORIG) bigide OPT=$(OPT)
override_dh_auto_install:
# we do not need to install any of the compiled units because # they are never used, they would be a waste of disk space. # everything will be compiled on demand into ~/.lazarus/lib/
find $(ORIG) -name "*.ppu" -exec rm {} \;
find $(ORIG) -name "*.o" -exec rm {} \;
find $(ORIG) -name "*.a" -exec rm {} \;
# we cannot directly install into $(ROOT)/usr
# because lazarus make install is broken (copy into itself) # so we install into a temp dir outside of this tree # please fix this in lazarus makefile
$(MAKE) -C $(ORIG) install PREFIX=/tmp/lazarus/usr
# because of the above now need to move it where it belongs mkdir -p $(ROOT)
mv /tmp/lazarus/usr $(ROOT)/
$(RM) -r /tmp/lazarus
# install forgot to install desktop start menu item # please fix this in lazarus makefile
mkdir -p $(ROOT)/usr/share/applications
mkdir -p $(ROOT)/usr/share/pixmaps
cp $(ORIG)/install/lazarus.desktop $(ROOT)/usr/share/applications/ convert $(ORIG)/images/icons/aqua.ico[0] $(ROOT)/usr/share/pixmaps/lazarus.png
# install forgot to install mime-types file and icons # please fix this in lazarus makefile
mkdir -p $(ROOT)/usr/share/mime/packages
mkdir -p $(ROOT)/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes cp $(ORIG)/install/lazarus-mime.xml $(ROOT)/usr/share/mime/packages/lazarus.xml cp debian_other/mime_icons/* $(ROOT)/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/
# install default config files
# please fix this in lazarus makefile
mkdir -p $(ROOT)/etc/lazarus
cp debian_other/etc/* $(ROOT)/etc/lazarus/
# remove all symlinks (entire /usr/bin), we let them create # automatically through the debian/links file
$(RM) -r $(ROOT)/usr/bin
# unneeded stuff left over in the install directory $(RM) -r $(ROOT)/usr/share/lazarus/install
$(RM) -r $(ROOT)/usr/share/lazarus/debian
$(RM) -r $(ROOT)/usr/share/lazarus/debian_other
# the following is INCOMPLETE and its only a dirty workaround! # create most probably needed unit directories for rebuilding ide # the ide - when building itself - will try to mkdir -p them # which would fail because of permissions but it will never actually # write anything into them (it will use ~/.lazarus/units/ instead) # we are perfectly happy if these directories exist and are empty. # Launchpad has only two architectures and Lazarus only two stable # widgetsets for Linux, so I am creating only those directories. # please fix this in lazarus makefile
mkdir -p $(ROOT)/usr/share/lazarus/units/i386-linux/gtk2 mkdir -p $(ROOT)/usr/share/lazarus/units/i386-linux/qt mkdir -p $(ROOT)/usr/share/lazarus/units/i386-linux/nogui mkdir -p $(ROOT)/usr/share/lazarus/units/x86_64-linux/gtk2 mkdir -p $(ROOT)/usr/share/lazarus/units/x86_64-linux/qt mkdir -p $(ROOT)/usr/share/lazarus/units/x86_64-linux/nogui
# probably a lot more stuff needs to be fixed,
# must care about it when I have more time...
override_dh_builddeb:
dh_builddeb -- -Zxz -z7
%:
dh $@
The main difference to other installers is that it will not install the compiled units at all, it will install only source code into /usr/share/lazarus, compiled units are not installed because they are automatically compiled on demand when the user compiles the first program.
This also brings us in perfect compliance with debian policy because /usr/share now only contains platform independent source code (I will also further modify it to install binaries directly into /usr/bin, no symlinks, not having any binary file in /usr/share/ at all and also no need for /usr/lib/.
The package could further be split into two:
* lazbuild binary and all source code (no dependencies on anything other than fpc)
* lazarus-ide (only the binary, dependency on gtk2)
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The /etc/lazarus/editoroptions.xml is only copied if there is no
~/.lazarus/editoroptions.xml.
Yes it is copied, one can see this when halting execution in the constructor of TEditorOptions but when continuing to run some milliseconds later it is overwritten with an almost empty default file. Tested with 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 from yesterday. Either something else is accessing this file bypassing TEditorOptions or something even more obscure is going on inside TEditorOptions itself. See my bug report.
