[debian-lan-devel] packaging Debian-LAN

[Andreas B. Mundt]

Hi pabs,

thanks for your suggestions.

On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 10:53:03AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
>
> > First, I dropped the config space to /usr/share/debian-lan-config/ .
> > However, lintian complained about an unknown interpreter
> > (#!/usr/sbin/cfagent) used in some files.  I can overwrite that
> > warning, but I thought perhaps it's better to drop it to
> > /usr/share/doc/debian-lan-config/ to kind of stress that these
> > executables are not to be run on the target machine.  So the
> > question is:  Where is the best place to drop the config space?
>
> The package must work when /usr/share/doc/ has been removed, so keep
> it in /usr/share. Please file a bug on lintian so that it recognises
> cfagent as

Done: http://bugs.debian.org/699670

>
> > When using /usr/share/doc/debian-lan-config/, some files from the
> > config space got compressed by dh_compress.  I had to overwrite
> > dh_compress to prevent that.  Are there better ways?
>
> From the manual page:
>
>        -Xitem, --exclude=item
>            Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename
> from being compressed. For example, -X.tiff will exclude TIFF files
> from compression.  You may use this option multiple times to build up
> a list of things to exclude.
>

Yes, that's exactly how I did it (cf. debian/rules):

     override_dh_compress:
	  dh_compress --exclude=fai/config

However, as I am moving the files to /usr/share/debian-lan/ now as
suggested above, it's not needed anymore.

[...]

> > Finally, what is the best name for the package? I thought about
> > debian-lan-fai-config, but finally ended up without the fai.  I am
> > still not sure if FAI should be mentioned in the package name, or if
> > that gets too long.
>
> I was thinking fai-config-lan.

Hmm, I don't want to interfere too much with FAI's name space as
debian-lan is independent, ...

I wait a bit if there are further suggestion, then I'll commit the
modifications so far.

Thanks,

	Andi