Packaging for the Maemo Platform

Packaging Applications for the Maemo Platform

First, find something you want to package ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

In the beginging was the tarball ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Automated ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

dh_make example export DEBFULLNAME=”Hack Er” dh_make –email [email_address] --copyright=bsd --file ../foo.tar.gz This is all you really need to get started in most cases. Note that you should be in the source directory to run this.

What do we end up with? $ tar xvf pyyaml_3.05.orig.tar.gz $ ls examples ext lib LICENSE PKG-INFO README setup.cfg setup.py setup_with_libyaml.py $ mv PyYAML-3.05 pyyaml-3.05 $ ls debian examples ext lib LICENSE PKG-INFO README setup.cfg setup.py setup_with_libyaml.py Oh! A debian dir!

Lots of extraneous files ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Absolutely necessary files ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

changelog ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

copyright ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

control ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

rules ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

An Average rules file ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

More rules ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

All those dh_* commands in your rules file ,[object Object],[object Object]

What does dh_* do? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

dh_auto_* ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

There is more than one way to build it ,[object Object],[object Object]

Open Build System ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Dependencies ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Dependencies 2 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Dependencies 3 ,[object Object],[object Object]

Dependencies 4 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

auto-apt ,[object Object],[object Object]

dpkg-buildpackage ,[object Object],[object Object]

Maemo is (and isn't) debian ,[object Object],[object Object]

Maemo's own build system ,[object Object],[object Object]

Pbuilder and cowbuilder ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Other debian goodies ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Sources ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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