[PD-dev] Re: separating the debian package building

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Thursday, Mar 18, 2004, at 13:07 America/New_York, Hans-Christoph 
Steiner wrote:

>
> I would like to separate the debian package building so that each 
> package is built separately.  There are a couple touchy packages in 
> there that never build for me without a fair amount of fiddling and I 
> need to build packages from source quite a bit since I have to push 
> out pd updates to 15+ debian boxes.
>
> Here's my idea:
> Separate each package out into its own "debian" directory which will 
> compile only one package:
> externals/debian
> externals/cyclone/debian
> externals/flext/debian
> externals/footils/debian  (aka pd-flext-ext; this might to be renamed 
> pd-footils for this to work)
> externals/OSCx/debian
> externals/pdp/debian
> externals/pidip/debian
> externals/unauthorized/debian
>
> Then a Makefile in packages/debian could run "dpkg-buildpackage -b"  
> for each of these, copy the "debian" dir to the pd src, and compile it 
> too.
>
> This system would make it easier to add new debian packages and have 
> them automatically build, since all of the necessary files would be 
> totally separate, with the exception of a couple lines in 
> packages/debian/Makefile
>

Ok, I am responding to my own email because I just realized that I left 
something out: the debian autobuilders.  AFAIR, the externals build 
files need to be contained within the 'externals' directory.  So with 
that in mind, I revise this above idea.  Maybe externals/debian/rules 
could call dpkg-buildpackage for the other packages?  I need docs on 
the auto build process, anyone have a good links?  I didn't find 
anything by browsing through the docs.

.hc